From: kamikaze@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [comp.lang.java.advocacy] Re: "Win32 is not a trustworthy platform for 100% Pure Java development Date: 1 Oct 1997 22:10:24 GMT Subject: Re: "Win32 is not a trustworthy platform for 100% Pure Java development From: "Skip Sauls" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy flmighe@ibm.net wrote in article <341161de.0@news1.ibm.net>... [...] > There is no absolute here, only degrees of risk. It has become clear > that reluctance of the Win32 experienced C++ and VB coders to support > Java is another reason why Win32 is not a trusted platform for 100% > Pure Java development. One thing that you seem to be forgetting is that there is a tool available on most every platform that makes it very easy for anyone to write non "Pure Java" applications: Vibe. It's available on the "evil" Win32 platform, but it's also available on your beloved OS/2 platform, MacOS, Windows NT Alpha, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HPUX, and IRIX. That covers all of the major platforms and many of the minor ones, so you're pretty limited when it comes to choosing a "trusted" platform. Kinda spooky, isn't it? If you believe certain people who hang around these groups waiting for me to post anything about Vibe, we at Visix are a bunch of sneaky bastards trying to fool the ignorant public into thinking that Vibe is a "Pure Java" solution. Yes, we are part of the great conspiracy to undermine the "Pure Java" initiative, along with the Men in Black from Redmond and the Smoking Man/Bill Gates. Vibe, J/Direct, and other non "Pure Java" technologies are actually based on code that has been extracted from computers at the Roswell crash site. This technology is so far beyond anything that Sun or its partners can hope to develop that the "Pure Java" initiative is already dead; it's followers simply have not realized it yet. "Trust No Platform" ;-)