Economics & Eye Candy

[Dan Shafer]

Yeah, I'll give you that. And there may be some value in looking at  
an implementation like Jython, which uses Python but allows calling  
Java classes where appropriate. As long as I never have to actually  
look at Java source. Yuk.

On Jun 7, 2005, at 4:31 PM, Brian Yennie wrote:

> LOL... (and I try to avoid writing that when it's not true).
>
> In all seriousness, though- I'm curious if a selective  
> implementation would be that bad. Java GUI crawls, and so does  
> string manipulation, but not ALL java does. I dislike Java as much  
> as the next guy (the next guy on this list, anyway), but there is  
> *some* fast, powerful java out there.
>
> - Brian
>
>
>> You mean other than a three-orders-of-magnitude slowdown?
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On Jun 7, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Dan Shafer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> The problem, IMNSHO, isn't with Rev, it's with the fact that as  
>>>> far  as I know there is no single method of creating and  
>>>> implementing  externals that runs on all platforms.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I wonder what could be done by integrating with Java....
>>>
>>> --
Dan Shafer, Co-Chair
RevConWest '05
June 17-18, 2005, Monterey, California
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