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RE: USB modem Linux driver




On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Chen Shapira wrote:

> Almost all Java applications are elephants.
> Jbuilder is the worse of them. Its huge, it sucks up 200M of memory, it has
> more memory leaks than my lisp code has parenthesis.
> But its the best Java IDE I know (well almost). The only one that debugs JSP
> (which I do on daily basis).

as far as i know, you can use IBM's visual age to debug JSPs (for sure if
you use their websphere system).

> And it works on every OS in the company.

the jdk is more portable then Jbuilder, and a good programmer that is
accustomed to such non-visual environments is more productive with it,
then most programmers are with jbuilder and its cousins (cafe and such).

> For that, speed seems like a minor issue.

right. for java programmers (that is, peopel that got used to programming
with java) speed is of no concern, simply cause its not there ;)

but see, that is _your_ opinion, and the other is _my_ opinion, and each
of us needs a diferent type of environment in order to feel good and feel
productive (possibly also to actually be productive).

but here is another argument against bloatware - it makes it hard (or
impossible) to load the product on a small embedded system that needs to
be sold in mass quantities and thus cannot afford much RAM. and these
embedded systems are becoming a larger part of the market all the time, to
an extreme that even beloved microsoft does not ignore them any more.

--
guy

"For world domination - press 1,
 or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy


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