On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:26:06 -0500
"Oliver Wong" <owong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "ed" <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:20061116131316.0dfacebf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > no one has to develop exclusively for anything if one uses
> > perl/python/java.
>
> Well, you'd be developing exclusively for the platforms that
> perl/python/java support. I'm a Java programmer, and I think Java is
> pretty good in the cross-platform metric, but I don't pretend to
> claim that, in practice[*], Java programs can run anywhere that
> software can run.
>
> - Oliver
>
> *: In theory, any program written in any language can run anywhere --
> its just that the relevant compilers/interpreters/emulator/run-time
> libraries might not have been developed yet.
well i'm reasonably sure that 99.9% of the market is accounted for if
linux/bsd/windows can run perl/pyton/java.
and i develop in the above three. plus a host of others. generally i
moved away as much as i could from java since it's not as portable for
me as perl is. i dont know of a distro that does not include perl. but
until java is part of the default install i'll continue to use perl in
it's place.
--
Regards, Ed :: http://www.openbsdhacker.com
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