From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2002-08-23T03:16:07+09:00
Subject: Re: A Repeat: New Language After Ruby?

Peter Hickman <peter@semantico.com> writes:

> However, and there always is one, there is one thing that drags me back 
> to Java which I despise. A cross platform GUI as standard. I think that 
> this is what turned alot of people onto Java, I know it got me. Now if 
> Ruby had one that was part of the standard install for all platforms 
> (Windows, Linux, Macintosh as a minimum) then I could forget all about 
> Java and clear some space on my bookshelf.

That is the only reason I translated DataVision from Ruby to Java. The code
feels bloated now, but at least the GUI runs everywhere without end users
having to install a GUI library.

Jim
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