Re: Flash 4.0 vs. Java? Part 2.0

by Jan Theodore Galkowski <jtgalkowski(at)alum.mit.edu>

Date:	Mon, 19 Jul 1999 07:21:17 -0400
To:	Jeffrey Frazier <jeffrey(at)idesignlabs.com>
Cc:	hwg-theory(at)hwg.org
In-Reply-To:	idesignlabs
	todo: View Thread, Original

At 08:45 PM 7/18/99 -0700, Jeffrey Frazier wrote:
>Hello, everyone. Jeffrey Frazier again.
>
[snip]
>
>I don't understand why the use of Java as a serious "programming
>language" for web-based applications is even considered. For these
>purely background uses of programming, (those which have no graphical
>effect on the browser), it is much simpler (and faster) to use a more
>common CGI language such as PERL, C++, or Python.

Common or not, Java has features which make it appropriate for 
programming-in-the-large AWA programming-in-the-small.  C++ is
used for many of the same purposes but using it is like trying
to drive with both hands tied behind one's neck.  PERL is simply
not a serious language for any but throwaway applications--  One
might as well use AWK.   I can't judge Python: Don't know it.

>

[snip]

  --jtg

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