Economics & Eye Candy

[Richard Gaskin]

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.

I ditched Micro$oft Office last year in favor of ThinkFree Office, 
written in Java with Apple's Swing libraries.  Overall it feels on par 
with native Transcript; somethings slower, some things faster....

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  Richard Gaskin
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