From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 14:10:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 14:10:05 -0400 Received: from tangens.hometree.net ([212.34.181.34]:30160 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 14:09:48 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: forge.intermeta.de!not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:09:46 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: <9gqota$k36$1@forge.intermeta.de> In-Reply-To: <9gponv$j92$1@forge.intermeta.de> <20010620042544.E24183@vitelus.com> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 993060586 9462 212.34.181.4 (20 Jun 2001 18:09:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:09:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2001 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Aaron Lehmann writes: >On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:00:47AM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: >> Just the fact that some people use Java (or any other language) does >> not mean, that they don't care about "performance, system-design or >> any elegance whatsoever" [2]. >However, the very concept of Java encourages not caring about >"performance, system-design or any elegance whatsoever". If you cared Care to elaborate? It's an application programming language, not a kernel hacker language, you know. I won't call Java the perfect solution for everything, but it's an useful tool for a certain type of applications. >for a reason). Need run-anywhere support? Distribute sources instead. >Once they are compiled they won't need to be reinterpreted on every >run. Thanks buddy. I've seen too many "#ifdef _SOLARIS_ || _LINUX && !_X86_" definition deserts to not wanting to do this again. Portability without os-specific tweaks for more than two or three platforms is a dream. And most if not all commercial platforms don't come with perl, python, tcl/tk or anything else installed. Many even without a (C-)compiler. Most without a C++-compiler. Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20