Apple has never been all that supportive of Java. They have their own agenda, and unlike Wintel, it wasn't a big enough market to make Sun/Oracle want to spend time doing the work that Apple didn't want to do.
Probably doesn't help that Apple has a reputation for being somewhat hostile to developers who want to do things Apple didn't do first.
The worst offender in the "custom JVM" variant was Microsoft and Visual J++. Which varied so much that Sun sued and won to stop them from peddling it.
Oracle was another big offender. IIRC they were hung up on Java 1.3 long after its corpse should have rotted away.
The big-name vendors are like that. They'll warrant their products for one specific platform because they don't want to deal with the cost of being more flexible, and often they'll even bundle their JVM of choice right in with their application.
Sun didn't jerk around minor releases, though. If a minor release change broke something it either had a bug in it or it had repaired a bug that someone else was exploiting in their applications. And, unfortunately, bug fixes are a major part of almost all language systems, so you cannot single out Java for that.
Java does port well. I spent years developing Java apps on 32-bit Windows machines to be deployed to 64-bit Sparc machines without any problems. But that's because I didn't get cute and attempt to exploit hardware or OS dependencies. It wasn't like it was that hard to do.
Pascal, unlike Java, was not self-contained. The primary examples being functions like println. More importantly, it wasn't object-oriented (although some OO variants were experimented with). And like it or loathe it, when you have a really large project, having stuff compartmentalized into predictable objects has some major selling points.
The IDE is so that management can hire ignorant monkeys and expect that the IDE's wizards will produce quality code rapidly and cheaply. Which, of course doesn't really happen since wizards are like the dock that carries you far out over the lake. And then ends before you get to where you really need to be. The IDE then allows ignorant monkeys to produce abominable-quality software. But hey, it was fast and cheap!
You can edit Java code all day long in Windows Notepad. An IDE in capable hands merely makes the clerical services more convenient. It's just a pity that capable hands aren't valued much these days.
For those kool-ade drinkers defending the administration regarding domestic spying, do you want your political enemies to have this power to wield when they inevitably gain office?
And don't forget - a lot of this stuff was given to the current administration by THEIR political enemies (the previous administration).
I think that this makes a very good case for concluding that there is no intelligent life in Washington.
I still use Perl when I have something that's heavily regex-based.
Python's better for when you need something that's readable afterwards and/or leverages a lot of pre-written code.
Python's equivalent of CPAN provides code that's a lot less fragile than what comes out of CPAN. Probably because it's not having to run a lot of stuff through a C compiler.
No. I don't mean civil crimes. Nixon wasn't the first to abuse power, but he got slapped down and took his lumps gracefully. He didn't have a whole lot of scruples when it came to power, but he didn't spend every waking moment working on ways to utterly destroy everything the Democratic Party was trying to do regardless of merit.
It wasn't until Reagan's cronies took over that "compromise" became a 4-letter word.
I presume that you've been missing all the census reports for the last several decades that indicate that the American populace has been getting progressively less white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant and (percentage-wise) more Latino/Black/Asian, Catholic/Muslim/Hindu/miscellaneous and so forth? To the point that "white folks" are now themselves becoming a minority?
In ice-cream terms, What was once Vanilla with a few specks in it is becoming more like Rocky Road or something.
This isn't a "kids" these days thing. The "kids" aren't "our kids" anymore. That's the difference.
The conventional wisdom was that in your youth, you were a liberal and as you "wised up" (grew older/more cynical) you became conservative.
The joker in the deck was that presently the younger generation is less vanilla than the older generation and the older generation isn't being very welcoming to people who aren't like them and never will be. So what used to be a pipeline from Democrat to Republican has developed a blockage and a lot of people are being squeezed out of the party pipes entirely.
I'd become a REPUBLICAN if the Republican party were anything like it was in the JFK years. There were Hawks and there were Doves, but they weren't exclusively in one party or the other, and outside of their opposing views on war and expansionism, they could be civil to each other. It was only the Cold War and Nuclear Armageddon, not like the very foundations of the Universe were at stake.
Now everything's a pledge and a "litmus test" and the loonies run the asylum.
The last time I saw the word "smelt" outside of metallurgy was in The Hobbit.
The English language has been losing its grammatical nuances for a long time, which is why we don't wear shoon on our feet anymore. Although I suspect that the sheer weight of so many non-native English speakers participating these days has had an accelerating effect.
Britain will just have to console itself with the fact that Americans are giving up on "gray" in favor of "gree", I mean, "grey".
I doubt that. The first rudimentary forms of government involved big sweaty people threatening injury.
Religion's roots are more in the line of bribe God (Nature) to do what you want it to do. Such as end the multi-year drought in Texas.
Secular leaders, however, quickly learned that you can save a lot of money on big sweaty people if you just bribe the priests to say that God will stomp on you if you don't do what the leader wants.
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The operative keyword is "Mac".
Apple has never been all that supportive of Java. They have their own agenda, and unlike Wintel, it wasn't a big enough market to make Sun/Oracle want to spend time doing the work that Apple didn't want to do.
Probably doesn't help that Apple has a reputation for being somewhat hostile to developers who want to do things Apple didn't do first.
The worst offender in the "custom JVM" variant was Microsoft and Visual J++. Which varied so much that Sun sued and won to stop them from peddling it.
Oracle was another big offender. IIRC they were hung up on Java 1.3 long after its corpse should have rotted away.
The big-name vendors are like that. They'll warrant their products for one specific platform because they don't want to deal with the cost of being more flexible, and often they'll even bundle their JVM of choice right in with their application.
Sun didn't jerk around minor releases, though. If a minor release change broke something it either had a bug in it or it had repaired a bug that someone else was exploiting in their applications. And, unfortunately, bug fixes are a major part of almost all language systems, so you cannot single out Java for that.
Java does port well. I spent years developing Java apps on 32-bit Windows machines to be deployed to 64-bit Sparc machines without any problems. But that's because I didn't get cute and attempt to exploit hardware or OS dependencies. It wasn't like it was that hard to do.
Pascal, unlike Java, was not self-contained. The primary examples being functions like println. More importantly, it wasn't object-oriented (although some OO variants were experimented with). And like it or loathe it, when you have a really large project, having stuff compartmentalized into predictable objects has some major selling points.
The IDE is so that management can hire ignorant monkeys and expect that the IDE's wizards will produce quality code rapidly and cheaply. Which, of course doesn't really happen since wizards are like the dock that carries you far out over the lake. And then ends before you get to where you really need to be. The IDE then allows ignorant monkeys to produce abominable-quality software. But hey, it was fast and cheap!
You can edit Java code all day long in Windows Notepad. An IDE in capable hands merely makes the clerical services more convenient. It's just a pity that capable hands aren't valued much these days.
VirtualBox is far from dead.
It is everytime I upgrade the kernel.
They basically just held up the Senate for 10 hours knowing full well that nothing concrete was being accomplished.
Now those are public servants--regardless of what legislation they delayed!
A Pity. Encasing the whole lot of them in concrete would probably be one of the best things that ever happened to US Government.
For those kool-ade drinkers defending the administration regarding domestic spying, do you want your political enemies to have this power to wield when they inevitably gain office?
And don't forget - a lot of this stuff was given to the current administration by THEIR political enemies (the previous administration).
I think that this makes a very good case for concluding that there is no intelligent life in Washington.
I still use Perl when I have something that's heavily regex-based.
Python's better for when you need something that's readable afterwards and/or leverages a lot of pre-written code.
Python's equivalent of CPAN provides code that's a lot less fragile than what comes out of CPAN. Probably because it's not having to run a lot of stuff through a C compiler.
Mandarin's for hardware people. Hindi's for software people.
Idioms don't count. Idioms are often the last refuge of dead words.
I forgot about the fish, though. I'll leave the fish for Gollum and takes the nasty chips. To each his own.
No. I don't mean civil crimes. Nixon wasn't the first to abuse power, but he got slapped down and took his lumps gracefully. He didn't have a whole lot of scruples when it came to power, but he didn't spend every waking moment working on ways to utterly destroy everything the Democratic Party was trying to do regardless of merit.
It wasn't until Reagan's cronies took over that "compromise" became a 4-letter word.
I presume that you've been missing all the census reports for the last several decades that indicate that the American populace has been getting progressively less white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant and (percentage-wise) more Latino/Black/Asian, Catholic/Muslim/Hindu/miscellaneous and so forth? To the point that "white folks" are now themselves becoming a minority?
In ice-cream terms, What was once Vanilla with a few specks in it is becoming more like Rocky Road or something.
This isn't a "kids" these days thing. The "kids" aren't "our kids" anymore. That's the difference.
The conventional wisdom was that in your youth, you were a liberal and as you "wised up" (grew older/more cynical) you became conservative.
The joker in the deck was that presently the younger generation is less vanilla than the older generation and the older generation isn't being very welcoming to people who aren't like them and never will be. So what used to be a pipeline from Democrat to Republican has developed a blockage and a lot of people are being squeezed out of the party pipes entirely.
I'd become a REPUBLICAN if the Republican party were anything like it was in the JFK years. There were Hawks and there were Doves, but they weren't exclusively in one party or the other, and outside of their opposing views on war and expansionism, they could be civil to each other. It was only the Cold War and Nuclear Armageddon, not like the very foundations of the Universe were at stake.
Now everything's a pledge and a "litmus test" and the loonies run the asylum.
New bumper sticker:
When Yeast is Outlawed, only Outlaws will bake Bread.
Don't laugh. Zero Tolerance has long arms these days.
The last time I saw the word "smelt" outside of metallurgy was in The Hobbit.
The English language has been losing its grammatical nuances for a long time, which is why we don't wear shoon on our feet anymore. Although I suspect that the sheer weight of so many non-native English speakers participating these days has had an accelerating effect.
Britain will just have to console itself with the fact that Americans are giving up on "gray" in favor of "gree", I mean, "grey".
But that's a horse of another colour.
I know nobody cares. Further evidence for this: nearly everyone gets that wrong.
Wrong? Look further down the definition.
Extra vowels have a way of making their way in when consonants abut.
It's different this time. Isn't that what they said back in 2000?
A lot of "religious wars" never actually were religious wars. Religion was merely used to "justify" them.
I've never heard of mass killing done in the name of science, no.
In the name of ideology, sometimes, but then again, ideology is often hard to distinguish from religion to begin with.
I doubt that. The first rudimentary forms of government involved big sweaty people threatening injury.
Religion's roots are more in the line of bribe God (Nature) to do what you want it to do. Such as end the multi-year drought in Texas.
Secular leaders, however, quickly learned that you can save a lot of money on big sweaty people if you just bribe the priests to say that God will stomp on you if you don't do what the leader wants.
Evidence, anecdotes and Congressional appointments.
"Lies from the Pit of Hell", you know.
They cash in the options before it all tanks.
Plus the options are generally issued at a discount or flat-out given.
It's those little things that make it so profitable to be a dismal failure as a CEO.
Nobody's going to hold you up and carry you around..
I dunno. Wasn't what they did to the French nobles back arount 1789?
I do not want "cheap stuff".
I want good value.
Seems like people these days have forgotten that cheap trash is still trash.