🚀 go-pugleaf

Holland <holland@iinet.net.au> writes:

>Jonathan Kitchin wrote:
>> 
>> i see where Java is the new programming language and the latest
>> Linux Journal is full of it.
>> is it possible that some young chap will rewrite linux in Java
>> and change the world's habits??
>> i would not like the job myself but someone like Linus Torvalds might.

>Something tells me this is satire, but I just dont get
>the joke.

>I think java is a great language, once you concede that a slight
>performance loss (when compiled) doesnt really matter.
>   But all the hype is over the Java Virtual Machine and
>its use on the internet, rather than the language itself.

>Of course the last thing you'd use java for is low level stuff
>like an operating system. (I'm not saying it couldnt be done.)

>Anyway, linux needs a Java compiler first. Both a source compiler,
>and a JIT one for the bytecode.

>> jonathan vk6tu

>Ah, a ham radio operator on the internet.
>A bit like a steam-engine enthusiast at a nuclear power station.

after seeing the rave in Linux Journal about Java i thought it might
be the wave of the future
in ham radio i get a kick out of getting a circuit to work
computers are just the same insofar as i get a kick out of getting
a program to compile and run

jonathan vk6tu