On Sunday 01 September 2002 08:43 pm, Reza B'Far (eBuilt) wrote:
> 3.  Java is not just a programming language!
The astounding thing about java is that despite all of the many significant
points in its favor, it still manages to suck, and break across JVMs.
I was really looking forward to being able to use a better language like
java and get it compiled to real platform-specific binaries via the GNU
compiler collection.   But this seems to have never really gotten anywhere
because it would require porting or reimplementing libraries, which are
probably not source-available or tolerably licenced.   When I looked at
what I had to do to gcc and link "hello world," I lost interest.
Who the hell is writing the runtimes, anyway?   Why are Perl/Python/Ruby
more reliable?   In a world where the Macs all ran emulated 68K code
utterly reliably, it's just hard to accept that there can't be a single
portable JVM that just works.
My opinion is biased because of the disgraceful state of non-Windoze
browser java implementations.
Eirikur

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