Re: Computer System Survey

Alexander Williams writes:
@:) On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Joachim Heck - SunSoft wrote:

@:) > Java's the only sensible way to go.
@:) 
@:) Its just too bad Java runs like a pig and has a really lousy FFI
@:) to hook into speed-increasing modules, isn't it?
@:) 
@:) (Sidreal note: I maintain a 3mil+ document complex web-based
@:) database system written nearly entirely in Python; what was that
@:) about nobody using it?)

  I'm not an apologist for Java - it has its share of shortcomings.
Sometimes the defacto standard's on your side, and sometimes you use
OS/2.  I used to use OS/2.  Now I write Java.  I think it's a step up.

-joachim