walterbyrd wrote: > Some think it will. How so? Just because Java is GPL doesn't mean you can type less while coding in it.
BufferedOutputStream bos = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream()); is still like that GPL or no GPL, no? > Up untill now, Java has never been standard across different versions > of Linux and Unix. The last company I worked for has been delivering products on Windows, Linux, and Solaris for years. We've never had to resort to any "platform-specific" stuff with Java. > Some think that is one reason that some developers > have avoided Java in favor of Python. Now that Java has been GPL'd that > might change. Becoming a better Java, maybe. Becoming more like Python? No way. I have high hopes for Jython though, Charles Nutter from JRuby has been having an ongoing discussion with the Jython developers in jython-dev. Interesting stuff! > IMO: it won't make much difference. But I don't really know. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list