Hello Tobias!

Jan 26 23:12 03, Tobias Ernst wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:


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

 TE> Portability is probably only a matter if you are talking about GUIs.

That's what I was already trying to say: it makes more sense for frontend
stuff like a message editor.

 TE> But as for command line tools - I think the range of possibile 
 TE> systems that hpt is running on is by far greater than the possible 
 TE> range of system a Java tosser would run on.

Of course it is. However, you can still ask how many of those systems are
still actually out there in use. gcj and friends are also progressing
nicely, you don't have to use Suns jdk/jre.

 GK>>  coredumps

 TE> If people simply would start using GNU boundary checking with gcc 
 TE> (-fbounds-check) while developing, that problem would be gone within 
 TE> weeks ...

:-)
I know. I already wrote that before (when I still was at home - and I
forgot to export that mail, it'll arrive here later :-).

 GK>> was more thinking about front- and backend parts, the 
 GK>> editor/viewer and so on.

 TE> I do agree that a Java-based editor would be cool.

Is Jesper Sörensen around here? AFAIR he is working on something in that direction...


Regards,
Gerrit

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