Re: Computer System Survey

Christopher Pratt writes:
@:) Joachim Heck - SunSoft wrote:
@:) > 
@:) > Alexander Williams writes, responding to the whole group:
@:) > 
@:) > @:) Alpha 200, 96meg, Digital UNIX 4.0c
@:) > @:) Alpha 8400 (TurboLaser), 2gig, same
@:) > @:) Celebris 6200 GL, 64meg, NT 4.0
@:) > @:) DECstation 5000/240, 64meg, ULTRIX 4.5
@:) > @:)
@:) > @:) A properly coded Python application can run on all of these
@:) > @:) platforms, oddly enough, without porting.
@:) > 
@:) >	Yah, but nobody actually uses it.  Java's the only sensible way
to
@:) > go.
@:) > 
@:) > -joachim
@:) 
@:) oh boy...everybody just jump on the java bandwagon...

  Yes, please do! :)

@:) try Visual Basic for win32 systems...as for mac users...well, i
@:) don't know there remember, they plan to market this...so people
@:) would have to want to buy it.  I have yet to see anything in java
@:) that works right

  Nevertheless such things do exist.  I don't know of any large-scale
applications yet that are written in Java, but then we're not talking
about a large-scale application.  This isn't Microsoft Office - it's
going to have to be a relatively small app because there just isn't
all that much to do.  Even a complete game simulator (computer version
of a GZG game), such as has been discussed here before, wouldn't be
work for more than one (full-time) person.  I think Java would be up
to the task of dealing with a small and simple program like this one,
especially since most of the simple bugs in Java have been fixed.

  As for VB, I have two problems with it.  One it's cross-platform,
and two it's BASIC, for cryin' out loud!!!  When I first heard about
it I remember thinking, "cool, someone's come up with a simple
language that allows you to graphically construct applications.
Because it's so simple and easy to learn, they used the name
'Basic'".  Then I looked at it and found out that it was just BASIC.
That may have been the first time I realized how horrible Microsoft
truly is.  They could at least have done Visual Pascal or Visual
Scheme or SOMETHING BUT PLEASE GOD NOT BASIC!

-joachim