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The Future of Java?
Todd AvErth writes "Judge Motz recently ordered Microsoft to distribute Sun's JVM with every Windows product. Salon decided to pipe up about it with an editorial musing about whether or not it's too late. Most of it isn't all that interesting, but some of the comments from Ximian developer, Miguel de Icaza point to the advantage of being able to compile from multiple languages. Anyone know of any projects to compile JVM bytecode from other languages?" Update: 01/23 16:00 GMT by M : Comments were disallowed when this story was originally posted; fixed now. My mistake (although KDE3's stupid mouseover-activates-form-elements user interface, now finally fixed in the latest versions, has to take some blame too).
Anyone know of any projects to compile JVM bytecode from other languages?
One or two...
Tablizer thinks everything should be a relational database.
If true, how is that more evil than thinking everything should be in Java application code? Why is my everything-isa-X more evil than your everything-isa-Y?
At least let the database do what it is good at: managing boat-loads of attributes and the relationships between them. Code sucks at that, at least for me. Code is too linear and static. Databases allow you to sort, filter, cross-reference, etc. all that info to more easily find and view what you need and only what you need. Sure, a fancy IDE can come close, but only by reinventing the database by making classes into an internal network database. Thus, you end up reinventing and/or using a database one way or another for larger apps. You might as well do it right rather than stumble upon a crippled version of it the hard way.
Table-ized A.I.