[nylug-talk] Free -m shows 300MB usage after upgrade to 1GB.

[Chris Knadle]

On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:04:35PM -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> > Lee Revell wrote:
> > > Remember "Write once, run anywhere"?  Bwahahahaha...
> > >
> > > Lee
> >
> > Hmmm ... I must be missing the humor.  On each of the last 3 *major*
> > Java apps that I worked on, we just one day decided to try running them
> > on a different OS than they were written on, and each of them *just*
> > *worked*.  Try that with C++.
> >
> > DR
>
> A fairer comparison would be to one of: tcl, perl, ruby or python.
>
> I don't think that java's portability is remarkable compared to any of
> these.

   One unfortunate thing with all of the languages is that portability must be 
explicitly kept in mind as a design goal if it's desired, even when the 
language is considered to be automatically portable, because each of the 
languages seem to have non-portable pieces available or there are other 
issues that make things non-portable.  Each example has a counter-example, so 
I'll just leave it at that.

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
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