Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 22:12:52 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), doug@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov, chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: JDK 1.02 Message-ID: <4490.840949972@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Aug 1996 14:31:38 %2B0930." <199608250501.OAA27269@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> Then you haven't used Tcl/Tk. You can add the Macintosh to the list too, for > both. > > The point here is that platform independence is a matter of sweat, not > of any inherent virtue or flaw in any given language. Java also lacks a "viewer" for any of the *BSD or Linux variants. With Tcl/TK, a very nice one is provided called "wish" :-) But I still think that the two languages were designed for very different things. Tcl is excellent for instrumenting an existing application, say for adding a macro language to an existing word processor application with minimal perturberation of code. AFAIK, nothing like that is possible with Java and so that'll certainly be one area where Tcl holds a clear and obvious advantage. On the other hand, we're all supposed to be writing generic code with IDL interface glue so that we can instrument the GUI from a completely separate application anyway. :-) I wonder how that free CORBA implementation is coming along. Jordan
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