From: Rich Morin <rdm@...>
Date: 2005-12-14T09:19:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Java is so 90s - thought you'd all like this

I sent them the following comment:

>The "layered look" isn't restricted to clothing.  The lower levels
>of most modern systems are written C/C++ (with occasional assembly
>language).  Indeed, Java itself is written in C, AFAIK.  Above this
>level, chaos rules.
>
>Interactive applications may be written in C/C++, Java, Objective-C,
>scripting languages (e.g., Perl, Python, Ruby), or combinations of
>these languages.  .NET (and Mono) offer one approach to combining
>languages, but web services (e.g., REST, SOAP) and cross-language
>interfaces (e.g., JRuby, RubyCocoa) offer lighter-weight approaches.
>
>Protege (protege.stanford.edu) is an interesting case in point.  It
>is a portable Knowledge Base (e.g., ontology editing) framework,
>written in Java.  However, it may be accessed via web services and
>Java's BSF (Bean Scripting Framework).  So, scripts can be used to
>extend Protege, use it as a server, etc.

-r
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