----- Original Message ----- From: "William Denniss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:27 AM Subject: [xmail] Re: java package
> > On Wednesday 02 July 2003 13:25, Orion Productions wrote: > > I see no point in this, Java has never been a serious choice for > > professional applications, and I talk out of experience as a developer. > > Sun is doing stupid things with Java, and I bet it will be dead in a few > > years from now... It's much better to look at the .NET Framework from > > Microsoft, companies worldwide embraced that platform because of its > > extensive functionality and good performance. If you program in Java > > already, you will have no difficulty in learning C#, and that's a sure path > > to the future. Once you get to know the internals of the .NET Framework, > > you'll trash Java as some filthy crap. :-) Believe me, you can do much > > neater things in much less time with .NET than you can ever even dream of > > with Java... > > Ok, so lets write our "neat" cross platform XMail admin tool in .NET shall we > - we could even use J#! and utalise our "Java-language" investments. > > Oh, what a shame our cross platform support would be restricted to the > different versions of windows, and not all of them at that. Since XMail > supports many more operating systems that this, it would decrease our > potential user base. > > On that topic of Java, I thank you kindly for your advice, but I shall > continue to use the solution you term "filthy crap" if that is ok by you. > Maybe I shall impart some advice to you, talking out of experience as a > developer. Different projects have different goals, which quite often > require different programming tools to achieve them. A linux project would > not be suitable for .NET for example. If you wish to debate the merits of > using a particular programming language for a project, then by all means go > ahead. But at least try and present rational statements, preferably backed > by fact. Knowing the goals of the project might help too. If you have no > interest in a project, then keep it that way and do everyone a favour. > > Best Regards, > > Will. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks for your help, Will, in leading me in the right direction, and you too Leonardo. Yes Davide, you are right about lang. wars. I did not start the post to create language wars at all. This is an XMail list and I agree it should stay that way. XMail is versatile in itself because it can go onto different OS's, with many great languages PHP, Perl - CGI, VB, .NET, C, etc.... so there is no room for these silly wars as you can see. Ah, now on to the more complicated things in life... like what to eat? Ben - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
