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- From: "Marcel Offermans" <marcel@wbmt41.wbmt.tudelft.nl>
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- Subject: Re: JAVA
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 23:39:09 +0100
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- Hello Mike,
-
- >> I agree with you. On the other hand, I would very much like to see an
- >> Amiga version of Java. I know there's a port underway, but I don't know
- >> how far it is. I see Java as more than just a language that can be used
- >> to make HTML pages more interactive. It can be a general purpose
- >> language, with the great advantage that it is platform independent.
-
- > If all you want is a platform independent programming language - well,
- > we've had a number of those around for a while. [...]
-
- > Which leaves Python. There's a port of the most recent version
- > available, and it seems pretty solid and well-behaved. However, for many
- > of the things you want to do there are parts missing that interfere with
- > it being used portably.
-
- You say there is a port. Could you point me to a site where I can obtain
- it?
-
- > In summary, computing environments have changed radically in the past
- > five years. Typically, languages give you a portable module for cpu
- > utilization and disk or TTY I/O. The current computing environment
- > includes network connections and windowing systems. A port of a language
- > by itself isn't sufficient to write modern applications - you need an
- > interface to the parts of the computing environment that aren't tied to
- > the language. Once you've got that you don't have the ability to write
- > portable programs - you need the interface to the things outside the
- > language to be the same on all the platforms.
-
- This is true. And it seems that Microsoft is working hard on getting Visual
- Basic to work on the internet. Perhaps that's going to be a competitor for
- Java in the future.
-
- > JAVA offers some hope of this, as it dynamically loads modules that
- > provide classes for those APIs, meaning that JAVA programs are portable
- > to all platforms that have JAVA and a module for that API. Python has
- > the same kind of functionality on some platforms, but not all of them.
-
- How does Python compare to Java language- and speedwise? One of the main
- problems with Java today is the speed at which the programs run. I know
- this will improve over time, but I'm interested in learning how Python
- compares.
-
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