Re: help a beginner decide

From: Percival (dragontamer5788_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:04:41 -0500

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 03:20:52 +0000, Randy Howard wrote:

> In article <20050118214908.11189.00000115@mb-m18.aol.com>, dantex1@aol.com
> says...
>> People who don't care if the app runs slow are used to Java. The software I
>> work with would be horibly slow in Java-like configurations.
>
> Forgive the topic drift, but why no dedicated Java hardware, akin to the
> old Lisp machines?

Erm, it was under my impression that the old lisp machines failed at
capturing the market at any rate.

One language is too little in today's world, people want different
languages for their different jobs.

Nothing can regex better than Perl can. And putting perl on top of Java
seems like a waste, and etc etc for all the other languages.

Percival

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