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Article #11691Re: Java TeX compiler
From: Martin Schroeder
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:00
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In <6ajc76$hna$10@blue.hex.net> cbbrowne@news.hex.net (Christopher Browne) writes:
[...]
>There are, what, 3 officially supported Java platforms? (NT, Solaris,
>W95) That obviously isn't the whole list of platforms where one can run
>Java code, but that is hardly as heterogeneous as what we already have
>with CWEB/CTeX.
There are some more. ;-) All OSs of IBM (OS/390, OS/400, AIX, OS/2) have a
JVM included. Netware and Oracle too. But it might get difficult with e.g.
VMS or Plan 9...
[...]
>>Another issue is that programmers usually produce applications several
>>times faster when writing in Java than when writing in C.
>Numbers, please? This sort of multiplication of productivity is often
>claimed, but evidence seems to be lacking.
"`There is no magic bullet"'
Best regards
Martin
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