Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:14:28 -0400 From: "Victor Subervi" <victorsubervi@gmail.com> To: "Erich Dollansky" <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT Message-ID: <4dc0cfea0712310914k369e5236o22ed95db04885c93@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47792175.80503@pacific.net.sg> References: <4dc0cfea0712310757u7a970bb0rb2b29a931ad9767b@mail.gmail.com> <477918B3.4090101@pacific.net.sg> <4dc0cfea0712310842o49b24abdl9ec10b4af124e373@mail.gmail.com> <4dc0cfea0712310842i6b24bbcaw3ab44d19a3bf96ef@mail.gmail.com> <47792175.80503@pacific.net.sg>
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Yuck. Steering clear of Java ... :) Thanks, Victor On Dec 31, 2007 1:05 PM, Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> wrote: > Hi, > > Victor Subervi wrote: > >> Good point. Most legacy s/w is in C++. I'm assuming from lack of > comment > >> that C# is as yet an unborn language ;) > > there is another very simple problem with languages like C# or Java. > > In the case of C, it is the developers machine which has to have the > proper software installed to compile it. > > Java need the proper run-time and so the byte compiler installed on > every client machine. If you run into a very specific problem with the > byte-compiler, you have to have a specific version installed on all > clients. > > In case of C, you can do a static link to minimise this impact. > > Erich >
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