[Gllug] Java sucks

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:03:42PM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> [2] Another blow to Java's much hyped platform independence. Sun made the
>     invocation sequence for a Java app so horrendously complex that it's
>     not realistically feasible to call it directly, and you *need* a
>     startup script (which is naturally system specific -- usually either
>     a Unix shell script, or a DOS batch script).

Another area where OCaML wins. You can compile OCaML to native code
if you want, or you can compile to bytecode. The bytecode is fully
cross-platform. It starts with:

#!/usr/bin/ocamlrun
<followed by binary bytecode mumbo-jumbo>

So you can run the bytecode directly on Unix. On Windows it runs it
by extension.

Nice ...

Rich.

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