On Friday 23 September 2005 05:33 pm, Dan McMahill wrote: > not to fan the flames, but the reality is that while there are JVM's > available for some platforms, java simply isn't as widely ported as C. > In fact, I've been unable to get gcc-java, blackdown, kaffe, suns java, > etc to even build on my alpha. So even if there were 100% agreement > that java is the best and a desire for massive rewrite, it's simply not > an option for some of us. Regardless of how you look at it, Java is a closed platform. Further, people keep referring to it as " Platform Independent". Java is not an application or program that is platform independent - Java is a platform. That is why a virtual machine is needed to execute the code on every system known to man. The one exception is a true java machine which executes java natively. As for my number one reason for not liking it: It is a proprietary commercial platform in the same vein as MS windows. It's a closed project because the license says that it is. I'll stop here or I'll write a diatribe on the woes of Java. Regards Marvin
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