on 16/11/01 03:55, Jon Glass at jonglass_at_usa.net wrote:
> on 11/6/01 2:00 AM, Frank Gruendel at Frank_Gruendel_at_t-online.de wrote:
>
>>> Also, I have yet to see anything written in Java
>>> that was actually useful,
>>
>> Ermmm... considering that I've been spending the last two years almost
>> entirely writing java software for a living, all of which is currently
>> being used in products that are sold, you might want to elaborate a bit
>> on that...
>
> Boy, you're quoting from several messages in your post. :-)
>
> I believe this was my message. What I mean is that I do not have nor use one
> Java application on my desktop (laptop actually) computer. I have run into
> one or two web pages that used it, and both uses were rather frivolous. So,
> as I said, I have yet to see anything useful done in Java. I suppose the
> sort of things done in Java are used in corporations and such, and don't fit
> into the mainstream?
That's usually the case. Corporations can then run those slow applications
on Sun servers with 4, 8 or 16 processor, 1.5 GB of RAM and 200 GB hard
disk. But, hey, it works!
-Laurent.
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