From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,517611567e1815f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jmarten@ibm.net (Jean-Marten Marchi) Subject: Re: Java momentum slowing ? Date: 1999/05/10 Message-ID: <3737f1a4.7234622@news2.ibm.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 476212291 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <372b0ec7.28153993@news2.ibm.net> <3728E60E.F789FD8@uq.net.au> <37299369.83779478@news2.ibm.net> <7gdlca$2j5l@drn.newsguy.com> <372f0ed9.104817048@news2.ibm.net> <7ghad5$1mma@drn.newsguy.com> <372d6106.5099983@news2.ibm.net> <7gsk7k$5fr@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <37333a43.181207462@news.mindspring.com> <7h399g$4nb@drn.newsguy.com> X-Trace: 10 May 1999 15:47:22 GMT, 139.92.77.183 Organization: IBM Global Services - Remote Access Mail & News Services X-Notice: should be reported to postmaster@ibm.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: postmaster@ibm.net Date: 1999-05-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 8 May 1999 23:17:20 -0700, steve wrote: > >see all the Java stuff to download. most run on windoz only. >and this is by IBM itself, who is the biggest supporter for >Java these days. > >example: > >http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/cfparse > >You'll see the platform is windoz. but it is written in Java. > >I've worked on a place where coding was done in Java, but >we all were required to only use windows for development, >since the application was supposed to run on windows only, even >though we used only Java code. > >Java portability is a big spam. Ada is much much more portable >than Java will ever be. Don't know if Ada is much more portable, but running Java on Windows is the biggest stupidity i've ever seen ! A slow system and a slow language. What a deal !