use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #1708 - 11 msgs

[Steve Gehlbach]

Dan Shafer wrote:

> 1. The Java learning curve is steep and long.
> 2. Java syntax is ugly and difficult to read in many cases
> 3. Java apps do *not* run cross-platform with anything near the ease of 
> Revolution apps.  Java's promise of "write once, run everywnere", long 
> since abandoned by Sun itself, quickly became "Write once, debug 
> everywhere."
> 4. Java apps are slower than equivalent Revolution apps
> 5. Java apps are cumbersome compared to Rev apps. (A Rev developer was 
> telling me just yesterday that he has a Java app that creates an alias 
> to a file. For it to run correcty cross-platform, it took 257 lines of 
> Java code. (That's probably 10-25% of the lines it would take in C++.) 
> In Rev? One line and it runs everywhere.)
> 

Java will become a teaching language, as is what happened to Pascal. 
Otherwise, it is pig-bloat-ware.  Remember the Lisa?  Friends don't let 
friends write Java programs.

-Steve