[ILUG] [OT] Which programming language ?

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Justin Mason wrote:

> also, mono is pretty much "there" for application development, 
> judging from what I've been seeing recently.  I still think it's 
> just a copy of java, which is a crappy language anyway, though, so 
> I'll give it a miss. ;)

Java isnt a language though. It's a trinity of JVM, the standard Java 
class libraries and the Java compiled language. And note you dont per 
se have to write your appliction in Java to run on the JVM, there are 
c->jvm byte code compilers available as well as (iiuc) 
python->bytecode interpreter (Jython i think its called). Tim Bray's 
recent blog is interesting:

 	http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/12/08/DynamicJava

Python, Perl, etc, for JVM could be quite neat.

Aside: I used to hate Java apps, as a user experience, because they 
were always *so* damn slow. However the Sun[1] Java people seem to 
have done a lot of performance work, as a Java 1.5 app i use 
regularly is perfectly responsive, where mozilla often can be a bit 
sluggish.

Mozilla + XUL - the Java 1.2 UI experience of today? ;)

1. I work for Sun, but have absolutely no interest in Java..

2. Nor do i speak for Sun ;)

regards,
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