On 3/11/2004, "Jonathan McDowell" noodles@earth.li wrote:
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 03:33:53PM +0000, Matt Parker wrote:
In the case of Java, it wins hands down on anything to do with the Internet that is more involved than a few scripted pages, and it wins hands down in terms of character encodings and language conversion. It has many drawbacks, including some of its API, though version 5.0 (or 1.5 whatever you want to call it) has improved the language significantly IMO.
I like the language, but the lack of a decent implementation holds it back. A fully working Free implementation would be a good start.
J.
Free never really bothered me. I don't use Linux for ideological reasons. I use it because it's better than anything alse out there.
BTW, the source is available for both the IBM and Sun JVMs and accompanying APIs, just that the source isn't published under a Free license. In the case of Sun it's licensed under the "Sun Community Source License" - http://wwws.sun.com/software/communitysource/j2se/java2/index.html
JRockit from BEA is also a pretty good JVM.
Matt