Hi,
On 3 Nov 2004, at 15:33, Matt Parker wrote:
And saying you'd use ANYTHING other than Java in, presumably, all cases demonstrates your inability to choose the right tool objectively.
Tsk, Matt, don't feed the troll ;-)
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.
I wouldn't say "hands down", but it certainly excels at being a modern-day language with sensible support for encodings. Anyone know how C# stacks up in this respect?
On 3 Nov 2004, at 15:37, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
I like the language, but the lack of a decent implementation holds it back. A fully working Free implementation would be a good start.
Define 'decent' ;-)
I've certainly never had major problems with blackdown on Debian or the OS X implementations of the JDK. Free would be good but is not essential for most people. Do you have other criteria in mind?
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