Re: Jeppesen database

["Keith Brown"<bahalana@wt.net>]

>How many people are interested in using Java?  We opted for it because it
>pretty much eliminated our dependence on a particular platform (as long as

>the platform supports Java, of course).  Certainly PERL is portable as well

>but IMHO it is not well suited to large scale development.  C is not quite

>as portable.

Not to start a religious or flame war, but I've tried several large applications
written in Java, and I'm sorry, I won't do it anymore. They're slower than molasses
in the winter on my P200 (which used to be fast), and even with my 64MB of RAM
(which used to be a lot), they take all of that and want more. On both Windows
and Linux.

C/C++ is almost as portable. As long as you decouple the GUI from the core functionality
and don't use any OS specific file handling or other system calls, it isn't
all *that* hard. Sure, it's more work, but I think it's worth it on all other
levels. Besides, there are more and more good cross-platform GUI kits that make
that easier to do now (open source, too). If you start out designing the program
to be portable, it will stay that way.

Of course, I've never worked on a large cross-platform project, so take what
I say with a grain of salt :-).
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