On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:00:41AM -0800, Matt Dorre wrote: <snip> > I think perl was the best idea so far. The Visual > Basic > thing was a joke.. maybe some people didn't get it.. > it was a joke as far as, if they did dev in VB > instead, > I'd be no worse off than I am with this totally > awesome > "java" language that's "cross platform" heh. I'll look > into gcj although I'm suspecting I will need a > working JVM anyway for that to work.. if not then > great > but if so then I'm just screwed by the java > conspiracy. > > Matt
its no conspiracy. its sun! sun's wants to be the java leader, and so they're chugging along "innovating". of course, they forget java is attached to them, so they're dragging it behind them and creating a moving target in the process. so, what happens is people who bought into it, like many corporations have, end up buying a package from bea or whomever, which is really a snapshot in time of a java environment. when the client wants to patch or upgrade or whatever, they'll find out java has moved on w/ sun, and left them behind w/ their antiquated java kit. don't get me wrong, i like java. but i gave up on it after i figured out it was easier to develop cross-platform in c. the api's might be a tougher target, but installation, compilation, etc aren't. i never even knew c till i got upset w/ working w/ java. so i had to learn c, unix/network programming, automake, autoconf, etc. even if it took a little more effort, i could at least look on a map and see where i was going, and didn't have to chase sun around. _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
