sicklittlemonkey wrote:
> On Feb 7, 8:14 am, Steven Hirsch  wrote:
>> s/Java/C++/ in my case.  The few times that I've tried to get the
bits between
>> my toes in Java it's been an unholy pitched battle.
> 
> I swing both ways, and each langauge has its strong & weak points.

My problems with Java are not with the language, per se, but with a 10+ year 
history of enterprise-level applications that are exquisitely sensitive to the 
exact vendor + version of the JRE.  At one point, I had (4) different JREs 
installed on my Linux machine - one for each of four applications that would 
only work correctly on that exact tuple of vendor + version.

For a language that touts itself as "write once, run everywhere"
this does not 
make a good poster child.  There also seem to be a lot of poorly written 
threaded applications out there with the propensity to deadlock.

It seems like every major application I install that's written in Java comes 
with its own huge discrete JRE.  That's almost a tacit admission of the lack 
of interoperability.  Anyone can write bad code, but there just seems to be a 
lot of it written in Java.  Probably a lot of good examples out there, but I 
just haven't run into much of them .

Steve
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