Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:43:51 +0000 From: James Mansion <james@wgold.demon.co.uk> To: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java binary support in FreeBSD ... Message-ID: <33158F97.6664@wgold.demon.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970227073751.14820A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com>
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Mark Mayo wrote: > Why bother??? It's not so hard to type 'java Class'...... > I like my users to be aware that they are running through an interpreter, > and that there are command line options to the interpreter. I can't imagine why anyone would take this view personally. A program is a program is a program. If I run a program, I don't care to know what language it is implemented in. UNIX gets this right with its shell scripts. Even VB gets this right! It doesn't make sense (to me) to require the use of a shell script wrapper that will then start the program under the interpreter. How kludgy - inconvenient and expensive at runtime. As for wanting to know that they are using an interpreter, well, why, apart from the very occaisonal case where you want to supply arguments to it? Most arguments go to the app, after all. And must Java runtimes are or soon will be JIT based, and its not as if there is an efficiency issue that users might wish to be aware of. James
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