Re: Why Are There No 'Killer' Java Apps ?

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From: Roedy Green (roedy-look-on-the-website_at_mindprod.com.invalid)
Date: 05/09/04 

Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 18:59:33 GMT

On Sat, 08 May 2004 19:29:08 -0600, Matt Parker's Dog Catcher
<mattNODAMNSPAM@dog.catcher> wrote or quoted :

>. He believes that this link he posted in his reply
>to me earlier is proof Office is written in Java:

Lot's of people thought Star Office was written in Java partly because
it came from Sun, and because many people were passing around the
incorrect information that it was.

Java detractors spread the rumour that Star Office's deficiencies were
caused by it being written in Java.

To think it was written in Java is a reasonable mistake. There is no
way you can tell nowadays with static native compilation.

Why are you here, to place childish one upmanship games or to learn
about Java? 

--
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Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming. 
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