[nylug-talk] Excesive memory usage by Java (ranty)

[Michael Bacarella]

On Jan 24, 2008 6:39 PM, sixtyfourbeets <sixtyfourbeets at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> Gasp!  But I thought the whole purpose of Java was to be the software
> equivalent to a saviour?  It would lift the burden of understanding multiple
> OS's by making everything platform independently cross compatibally
> superlicious.

This is not a promise to the end user.  It's a promise to the
developer.  It's also
a lie, but that's not the point.