Comment Re:Is it me or... (Score 1) 304
He's wearing a Mark Mask. Shhhh!!
Remember kids; any time you argue against general prosperity and growth you come off looking kind of dumb.
Ditto making simplistic statements on complex matters.
I've got my eye on that Greeter position at Wal-Mart.
I like it.
I just run 'make' on any BSD, any Mac, cygwyn windows, or I could try the ubuntu windows (haven't don that yet), any linux and any other AIX, solaris or other older POSIX system and the code runs. with those
so I hence my question. really portable java?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, now show me your build script, tool chain and dependencies.
I have a JDK and ANT and while the scripts can get complex, this is due tot he complexity of the app, not the complexity of how to compile this particular bit of code on this particular host for some particular target.
I grant you that a solid, mature portability ecosystem has grown around C (several, in fact), but those things don't make C more portable.
They make it easier to port C.
There is a big difference.
Its the participants.
They'll be made. They'll be deployed. They'll go wrong. They'll be refined and we'll be assured it will never happen again. It will.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids? -- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commission
