From: Robert Dober Date: 2006-09-18T18:40:41+09:00 Subject: Re: the future of Ruby ------=_Part_125306_5513847.1158572372076 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 9/17/06, Charles O Nutter wrote: > > On 9/17/06, Francis Cianfrocca wrote: > > You don't need examples from me. Just look to your own experience. > > Have you ever tried running Oracle and a version of Tomcat that > > requires a different JVM, on the same machine? (Yes, I know it's a bad > > idea to run *anything* on the same machine with an Oracle instance, > > but that's not my point.) Remember porting your AWT applications from > > JDK 1.1 to 1.2? > > I just grepped for the word deprecated through my Java 1.5 doc, I got 7759 hits, (which is not an awful lot, this is in >> 1M lines of html) yet I feel to say Java is not breaking backward compatibility is slightly exaggerated. Cheers Robert P.S. Maybe there are some false hits like "this will never get deperecated" too ;) R. -- > Contribute to RubySpec! @ www.headius.com/rubyspec > Charles Oliver Nutter @ headius.blogspot.com > Ruby User @ ruby.mn > > --=20 Deux choses sont infinies : l'univers et la b=EAtise humaine ; en ce qui concerne l'univers, je n'en ai pas acquis la certitude absolue. - Albert Einstein ------=_Part_125306_5513847.1158572372076--