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From: Tom  <Tom@newsguy.com>
Subject: Re: Java momentum slowing ?
Date: 1999/05/02
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In article <7giv8n$13fo@drn.newsguy.com>, Mitch@nospam@ says...
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>In article <7git59$1085@drn.newsguy.com>, bob@nospam says...
> 
>>Sorry. No source code provided. Only binary libraries. When they release
>>it with source code, then I'll use it.
>>
>>I will not commit my software to be integrated abd be dependent on 
>>something that is closed and with no source code. If you are wise, 
>>you will do the same. 
>>
> 

I agree.

See below, this is from 5/99 interview in Linux Journal with Larry Wall:
 
".... There is no such thing as a perfect organism, biologically
speaking. About the most you can say is an organism is more or less
suitable for the environment in which it finds itself. In fact,
biologists are just now realizing that any organism which seems to be
"perfect" for one environment is likely to be in danger of extinction
as soon as the evnvironment changes. Over- specialization is only as
good as your ecological niche. We're not just talking about dinosaurs
here, but also snail darters and cheetahs and a bazillion beetles in
Brazil---not to mention Visual Basic.

     We've already seen the deaths of many over-specialized organisms
in computing: Lisp machines, Ada chips and many so- called fourth
generation languages. Any program ever written in assembly language
for an obsolete architechure is now obsolete. Likewiise, any program
that ties its fortunes to a single operating system is likely to go
down with the ship. I don't know how many more torpedoes Windows can
take before it sinks, but if and when it does, a whole batch of
specialized programs are going down with it. Obviously, for reasons
relating to the open source movement, Linux does'nt have this
particular problem...."

 
The good thing is that Ada is open source (thanks to Gnat), so, if you
use Gnat, you'r safe when M$ goes billy up :)

Tom