hi, there!

26 Jan 03 09:35, Gerrit Kuehn wrote to Max Khon:

 GK>>> I've already thought about that several times. But I think it would 
 GK>>> require too
 GK>>> much manpower to rewrite in Java, although there would be some 
 GK>>> advantages.

 MK>> which ones? 

 GK> The usual ones: better and easier to port, safer programs, less 
 GK> coredumps,

less coredumps for more unhandled exceptions

 GK> easier to work on with a group of people, 
 GK> easier to extend and  reuse existing code. There are more.

both of these statements are moot.

 MK>> Java is a good language and programming platform but 
 MK>> using it for tossing mail is pretty useless. Just imagine hpt eating 
 MK>> 70-100M. It does not worth it.

 GK> Well, the tosser is probably not the best example, for sure. I was 
 GK> more
 GK> thinking about front- and backend parts, the editor/viewer and so on.
 GK> Implementing new features and new technology like the sql-backend you 
 GK> recently
 GK> talked about would imho be much easier with java.

libodbc++ is not any more complicated and hard to learn than JDBC
heck, plain ODBC if used correctly can be very easy.
I am not against having message editor written in Java, but
hpt written in Java will be an overkill.

 GK> Of course it *does* cost:
 GK> first of all memory, sometimes cpu cycles. On the other hand, people 
 GK> like me,
 GK> who are running a mailer on a 16MB 486, seem to be dying out... :)

usually you care about amount of memory your programs eat less when you are on
desktop than if you are running fido station on server.

/fjoe

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