Whoop.

Whoop.

Posted Aug 7, 2003 9:48 UTC (Thu) by stuart2048 (subscriber, #6241)
In reply to: Whoop. by ncm
Parent article: Sun pragmatic about open-source software (News.com)

>We don't need no steenkin' binary portability. We have source.

Well, I'm no fanatic about any one language in general, but
this got my hackles up.

Java is much more than binary portability. The write-once-run-
anywhere slogan is way overplayed imho, and as witnessed here
comes back to bite on occassion. It's a useful feature but it's
not the highest on my list.

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