[geeks] Misuse of Java

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:11:13PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 02:57 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >>  Wow, I suppose it's a good thing you're wrong. ;)
> >>
> >>  If it weren't for Java, my company's product would be functioning
> >>maybe 1-2 years from now, instead of *now*...and then it'd likely only
> >>be on one or two platforms.
> >
> >So, if it weren't for Java, you'd be completely incapable of picking up
> >another rapid development language?  There are lots out there.  Like,
> >compilable python, for instance.
> 
>   Of course not...but I wasn't interested in "picking up" another 
> language.  And does Python have the cross-platform GUI capabilities of 
> Java, and if so, does it do them as well as Java does?

I personally rather like wxWindows.  For one thing, it looks correct on
each platform, unlike swing.

But the point wasn't that you should have used something other than
java, rather that if java wasn't available, you could have found
something else just as fast.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd