> >The more people use Java, the more the creators will be driven to improve > >its performance on the various platforms to make it viable. > > I am not sure how they could do that, it's uselessly slow at the moment.
I think what Jason is saying is the reason it's uselessly slow at the moment is because enough people aren't using it. But then, people don't use it because it's uselessly slow... Welcome to the circle reasoning, or is that a spiral (down)? So the Java philosophy is "This product is really worthless, but if we get enough customers buying and using it we'll improve it in the future." I'll bet any company with that idea wouldn't float. They'd need another whole product line to prop that dud up with. Good thing Sun had the already proven technologies like solaris to fall back on... _______________________________________________ msvc mailing list [email protected] See http://beginthread.com/mailman/listinfo/msvc_beginthread.com for subscription changes, and list archive.
