Re: java versus c++ or perl

1999-05-07 Thread Azazel
> Java also has the advantage that Perl (AFAIK--I'm not even a Perl newbie) > lacks in that Java has JNI, which would allow you to "call down" to C++ > code if necessary. Not true actually: a lot of the big Perl modules have cores written in C with stubs in Perl to allow one to call them easi

Re: Sun vs microsoft? RE:We Won!

1998-11-18 Thread Azazel
> > On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Glenn Valenta wrote: > > > >Hey, did everyone notice that Sun won it's java suit against microsoft > > >today? The judge granted us an injunction and Microsoft has to start > > >shipping a Java implementation that complies with the test suites or > > >quit shipping win

Re: Bitwise Operators.

1998-08-04 Thread Azazel
Thanks chaps: the operators are now doing what I hoped. Learnt a valuable lesson today: if one is going to twiddle bits it helps if one is familiar with the bits one is twiddling. :) J. +0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+ www:http://www.elephant.org/~azazel/ mail: [EMAIL

Bitwise operators

1998-08-03 Thread Azazel
m.err.print("\n"); return l; } } n: n>>8: n>>>8: n<<8: n: 00001111 n>>8: 111

Re: Equivalence

1998-07-28 Thread Azazel
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Re: Survey, what tool do you use?

1998-06-18 Thread Azazel
Pico? Pah! Try vi. Grr! :) Az. Dustin Lang wrote: > > > What development tool do you use to help on daily coding? > > pico :) > > dstn.

Re: JDK1.1.5 with RedHat

1998-06-11 Thread Azazel
Erm, you didn't want the libc version if you're running 5.0. I know from bitter experience: all sorts of things started crashing after I installed 5.4.44. You want the glibc version and to try to get rid of libc 5.4.44 and co.. I took the rather drastic measure of scrub- bing my box and upgradi

Netscape 4.05

1998-06-09 Thread Azazel
I've just installed the JDK1.1 prerelease again and this time I sorted out the problem that cropped up last time, that I needed to have the Netscape archive (${MOZILLA_HOME}/java/classes/java40.jar) before the JDK archive in $CLASSPATH, - or so I thought. This had the unfortunate effect of confus

Re: java 1.2 ??

1998-06-09 Thread Azazel
According to the FAQ (http://www.place.org/~stevemw/java/FAQ/FAQ-java-linux.html): > 2.5 When is the JDK 1.2 Going to be Released for Linux? > > According to Steve Byrne on Monday, May 26th 1998: > > JavaSoft is trying very hard to get a license set up with an external person > to co

Re: RH5.0 and JDK1.1.?

1998-06-09 Thread Azazel
> > Also, is there a working Netscape for RH5.0? > > > > My copy is 4.05, and it works fine. Has anyone managed to get JDK1.1-complete preview version of 4.05 working under RH 5.0/5.1? The Java was decidedly flaky, when I installed it. Az. >-)=

Re: Javac

1998-06-03 Thread Azazel
Doh! I *knew* there was something I was missing: I should have read the FAQ. Fixed in five minutes. :) Thanks, folks. Az. >-)= Stephen Wynne wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Azazel writes: > > Help? I've installed jdk1.1.5-v7 under Redhat 5.1 and

Javac

1998-06-02 Thread Azazel
Help? I've installed jdk1.1.5-v7 under Redhat 5.1 and all of a sudden (it was fine under 5.0) I get the following: > [azazel@anubis ~/misc]$ javac Test.java > No library path set. I'm sure I'm being an idiot but I just can't see the wood for the trees at the moment. Ta, Az.

Re: VB and Access == Java and ????

1998-05-27 Thread Azazel
Might JDBC give you the access you need to your data? I know it's helped me avoid a fair bit of VB.