Economics & Eye Candy

[Dan Shafer]

On Jun 7, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Gordon Webster wrote:

> Java is
> stable mature and truly cross (cross cross cross)
> platform if you use Swing components (Dan :-D)

I wish my Java programmers believed that. They claim that although  
Java 1.5 and SWT have fixed a lot of problems, GUI design is still  
pretty much a write-once-debug-everywhere hit-or-miss kind of task. I  
may have to flog them.

> Java and Python may not be
> as much fun as rev, but they're like flying a plane
> compared to knuckle-walking in C.

True (and a great analogy to boot).




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Dan Shafer, Co-Chair
RevConWest '05
June 17-18, 2005, Monterey, California
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