On Aug 7, 2004, at 7:20 AM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> the GNOME desktop environment, StarOffice productivity suite, Mozilla
> browser, Evolution mail and calendar client, and Java 2 Platform
> Standard
> Edition."
>
> Not much of that seems to be written in Java :)
>
My impression was that recent versions of staroffice and mozilla
contained quite a bit of Java code, in their bid for more
platform-independence.  Wasn't that one of the things leading to
complains of slowness?

Like pascal and basic, there's no particular reason that java programs
can't be compiled all the way to machine code instead of byte codes, is
there?  Machine-independent binaries are nice, but for major
applications they aren't nearly as important as machine-independent
source code...

BillW

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