[SLL] faking Unix knowledge? pretend to know open source Unix?

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 11:41 -0800, Chuck Wolber wrote:
>> That is simply not the case in the embedded space, and is far less of an
>> issue these days with Java 5 and Java 6 than it used to be.
>
> That's true.  Now, as soon as all those vendors who love java start
> agreeing on the same version/vendor, we'll be happy.  I'll be over here
> looking like a smurf while holding my breath.

No need for a religious war. A lot of vendors have settled on crappy
Java, which I actually think is a vast improvement from the crappy C
they were using before---installing parallel JVMs is a lot better than
not updating glibc! You can hardly blame the language for what
people do with it. Java has a good spec but there is a mindset problem.
I can't think of a single Java app that I use daily, but as long as they're
teaching Java to students I will continue deploying Tomcat and other
open source Java tools.