Re: Java/Linux is _ Not _ for the desktop.

On 22 Feb 2007 01:30:40 GMT, Jeff…Relf wrote:

Hi BioFreak, Suppose you have a small app,
say a few mega-bytes of VC++ 8.0 source code.

What are you going to do if you can't automate OpenOffice,
FireFox, vi, emacs, etc. ? Do your customers even have these apps ?
No, so you automate Office, IE7, Visual Studio, etc. instead.

As a customer, running God knows what flavor of Linux,
and nothing else, you miss out big time.

Java comes in ten different flavors,
a standard Windows box doesn't even have it
and its " Write-once debug everywhere ".

I was just silly and meant something else when I said
that. I don't have customers and neither am one. I have
questions instead and every now and then write my own
programs to get answers for them. So my concern is a
matter of what's convenient for me. Java is harder than
C++ to implement but it is flexible. You write it once
and it'll work on just about any platform that's out
there. And yes it can essentially automate all the
applications that run on those platforms (using
scripts). I'm not doing high volume number-crunching
(C++ is better there) so my choice is Java.

--

"Jews are hanging on to themselves
because they know that they'll lose to
individual others on every fair ground."

- Maleki
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