[rescue] Sun memo regarding Java

Mon Feb 10 22:29:30 CST 2003

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:39:10PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 11:30 PM, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> >> FWIW, our shop does some Java, but I haven't noticed that the 
> >> development
> >> was all that rapid; in fact, rather the contrary.  Might not be Java 
> >> at
> >> fault, of course....
> >
> > Most Java programs don't know how to get development speed from it.
> > Frankly, I'm not sure I do, even though I know it's in there somewhere.
> 
>    Eh??  You just...*write* it.  You want a button?  A line of code.  
> You want a file chooser widget?  A dozen lines of code.  You want an 
> error dialog box with a stop-sign icon?  Three lines of code.

I really think that OTHER language from Sun, TCL, is a better language
than Java.

Everything you talk about above is faster and easier in TCL than in
Java, and doesn't require 80MB of crud spewed across your spindles to
get it.

--Patrick