RE: Java Resources

[Craig Oda <craig@example.com>]

On Sun, 11 Feb 1996, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> That's an odd-looking path, too, since you will never be able to find
> your own variants of standard classes....  This might be a good idea,
> given the complexity of net interactions and the potential security
> risks of allowing other people to run applications on your machine,
> but seems to defeat the whole idea of path ;-)

Yea, I'm just getting started and had my own classes in the
same directory as the source.  :-)   

There appears to be a -classpath flag I can also use, but
I haven't gotten the docs for the JDK yet. 

For those of you wondering whether to give java a try, I
would really recommend it.  Aside from being really slow
on my 486, it is a lot of fun to play with.  Some stuff resembles
C++, but the GUI commands are as easy as Tcl/Tk.   The
error messages for the compiler are quite good.  The OOP
structure is better than C++.  I remember that last year we
had a PIGUI (Platform Independent Graphical User Interface) 
TLUG meeting.  Well, IMHO Java looks like the best.  TkPerl
does not look like it is catching on.  Tcl/Tk is not fun
to play with once the program gets too long.  Anyway, none
of them are really platform independent in the way that
java appears to be.  In a word, "cool!"

I don't know about all this talk about Internet terminals,
but IMHO people will want more speed.  The java apps are
taking forever to compile on my current box.  

Regards,
Craig

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