On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:35:25AM -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote:
If it isn't a huge application why not try java ? :-)
Because that's pretty iffy in an open source environment right now.
We're shipping Eclipse and Tomcat with FC4. Those are pretty big examples of things that work in a fully open source environment right now.
Yes, some specific things work great. But are you really saying that in general open source Java is ready for prime-time?
While googling for an earlier reply, I found this: http://ometer.com/desktop-language.html
I was going to flash it up when someone extolled the virtues of C again:-)
The author should be well-known hereabouts. He works for RH, is a former Pres of the Gnome foundation.
and his name's "Robert Sanford Havoc Pennington." I'd always assume he hailed from some middle-European country, but no, he just has weird parents.
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