"Tony Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your first sentence contradicts the rest of your post; how is > > Java the problem if it runs nice on a Mac and is sluggish on > > Windows ? > > Because any Java program on (any version of) Windows (in my experience) is > sluggish, and this is not true (again, in my experience) for Java programs > on a Mac. > > There is a vast difference between the various JREs; whereas every platform > I've used a cPython interpreter on has given reasonably constant performance > (which is to be expected, with a C implementation).
"Java" as a term means different things to different people, but I expect most would think of the core language and its standard library first and the JRE/JVM second. So saying "the problem of X is Java" when you really mean "the problem of X in platform Y is Sun's JVM in Y" is kinda misleading. Disclaimer: I am neither Java's not Eclipse's advocate; I'll choose python over Java any day, but let's put the blame where it is due. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
