Hello Max!

26 Jan 03 05:06, Max Khon wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:


 BP>>> one could try make husky into java, hehe :)

 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? 

The usual ones: better and easier to port, safer programs, less coredumps,
easier to work on with a group of people, easier to extend and reuse
existing code. There are more.

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

Well, the tosser is probably not the best example, for sure. I was more
thinking about front- and backend parts, the editor/viewer and so on.
Implementing new features and new technology like the sql-backend you
recently talked about would imho be much easier with java. Of course it
*does* cost: first of all memory, sometimes cpu cycles. On the other hand,
people like me, who are running a mailer on a 16MB 486, seem to be dying
out... :)


Regards,
Gerrit

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