From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 28 12:06:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA22071 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:06:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hod.tera.com (hod.tera.com [206.215.142.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA22066 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:06:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [206.215.142.62]) by hod.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA06919 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:04:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA00386 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:04:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606281904.MAA00386@athena.tera.com> Subject: JAVA question.... To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:04:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sorry if this is too far off the standard `questions' topics. Would anyone know if JAVA can be used to do local programming on FreeBSD?` Might JAVA be a replacement for Borne or ksh scripts? or perl, python, or tcl/tk interpretive languages? After years of resistance I've finallt become at least somewhat literate in shell programming. I'm ready to bite the bullet and learl perl... but if JAVA is going to be the next super-capable language, I'll go that route. The C/C++ model is simplicity itself next to /bin/sh or awk, sed, or other hackery. Feedback, people?? gary kline