on sunday NUMBER september NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER pm reza b far ebuilt wrote NUMBER java is not just a programming language the astounding thing about java is that despite all of the many significant points in its favor it still manages to suck and break across jvms i was really looking forward to being able to use a better language like java and get it compiled to real platform specific binaries via the gnu compiler collection but this seems to have never really gotten anywhere because it would require porting or reimplementing libraries which are probably not source available or tolerably licenced when i looked at what i had to do to gcc and link hello world i lost interest who the hell is writing the runtimes anyway why are perl python ruby more reliable in a world where the macs all ran emulated NUMBERk code utterly reliably it s just hard to accept that there can t be a single portable jvm that just works my opinion is biased because of the disgraceful state of non windoze browser java implementations eirikur 