Even Sun Can't Use Java 833
cowmix writes "It turns out that Sun does not eat its own dog food. Specifically, this
internal memo from Sun strongly
suggests that Java should not be used for Sun's internal projects.
More interesting still, they go on to state which other languages
fullfil Java's goals better than Java does itself. Finally, the
memo states Sun's own Solaris is the cause of many of Java's woes. Yikes."
It would be interesting to find... (Score:4, Funny)
See what happens... (Score:3, Funny)
Hand the implementation to Microsoft, they can fix the problems this has...
Re:It would be interesting to find... (Score:5, Funny)
(Blah... blah... Mono... Free... chasing a moving wall in order to pound your head against it...)
FUD (Score:1, Funny)
ok so its more SUN FUD. Sun is trying to kill java because its open source! hacker freedom!
Re:OMG, "Hello World!" (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Not Java but the Solaris JRE (Score:1, Funny)
Re:shoot self in foot, then head ... (Score:3, Funny)
"The gun fires just fine, but your foot can't figure out what the bullets are and ignores them."
Quite amusing.
Yeah... (Score:2, Funny)
Seems that Java might not be Sun's cup of tea anymore... err...
*hides*
Re:Not Java but the Solaris JRE (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hypocrisy? (Score:5, Funny)
Um, no.
First off, who knows if the note is even authentic.
Secondly, what will be MS's argument?:
"Judge, Sun feels they should improve their Java product. As you know, the law states that no company should be able to improve their products, unless they are us, and we can improve other people's products, but only for Windows. Thank you."
level 5? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Not Java but the Solaris JRE (Score:1, Funny)
Welcome to our universe. It's nice to know corporations work so well in yours. Can you take some of our CEOs back when you return home?
Re:It would be interesting to find... (Score:5, Funny)
How many times do you have to visit a web site that gives you 15 popup windows complaining about script errors in IE?
You do know that that's Javascript which is nothing to do with Java, right?
Who here hasn't had to download an older version of the JRE because you've found a program that doesn't work on the newer versions.
Yes, inter-version compatibility is a big problem, as mentioned in the Sun memo.
Yeah, it was cool back in the days before DHTML, Flash, and XML. But now it offers very little additional functionality.
Oh for chrissake! The memo is talking about large applications. As in, not java applets. Read the damn memo. And get a clue. "Java was cool back in the days before ... XML. But now it offers very little additional functionality"? What does that even mean? It sounds like you're just throwing buzzwords around. I suppose C offers little functionality over ASCII, and C# just isn't cool now we have WordPerfect and ISO9660?
Re:Addressed? Hehehehe (Score:4, Funny)
Now it's "write once, run away"
graspee
Re:hoax, this memo is (Score:2, Funny)
Otherwise, they would have called it "internalmemohoaxes.com". Try using this thing called "logic."