in 337600 20080310 222850 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Mar 10, 2:21 pm, Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Java is more portable than most other languages, especially if your app >> needs a gui. > >The promise of Java portability was one of the biggest scams ever >perpetrated on the software industry. There are issues going from OS >to OS, VM to VM, DB to DB, app server to app server, etc. Certainly >no easier than porting C++ and the appropriate libraries, IMHO.
Quite untrue - I have a stack of large java apps which run without change on Linux, OS/2 and Windows. Not many, if any, other languages can match that, and definitely not C++. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
