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From: chapman@grizzly.cs.washington.edu (Randy Chapman)
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Philip Staite (pstaite+@rchland.ibm.com) wrote:
[otherwise good message deleted]
: Why does Java rate a 1 for portability?  Can I go out _today_ and get a
: Java environment for DOS?  VMS?  MVS?  AIX, HP/UX, BSD, Linux, SVR5,
: Irix?  Mac?  OS/2?  Windows? 

Dos? no.  VMS? no.  MVS? no
AIX? yes.  HPUX?  I believe so (but I think its alpha still)
BSD? depends on the variant
Linux? yes (works on NetBSD and FreeBSD as well)
SVR5? not that I know of
Irix? yes
Mac ?yes
Os/2? yes
Windows? yes (currently only 95/NT)

: The only ones I know about are Win95 and
: Solaris.  Maybe I'm way behind here, but as far as I know Java
: development environments have been released for only a couple of
: platforms, and only a couple of versions of browsers support it *right
: now*.

I think its there for more than half your platforms... how do those
implementations compare to what that platform offers for, say,
C++ with STL ?  I wouldn't swear as to which is more supported.

: Overall this appears to be a highly subjective and arbitrary comparison.

aren't any language comparisons?  You need to look at it from what you 
need to do and what resources you have, you can't just say
X is the only useable language.

--randy



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