Any comments?
eSuite is about what you'd expect. Java just isn't here yet, and it is going to be another year, maybe two, before it can be used in serious production software. It is significant that eSuite omits some of the features people have become very accustomed to having -- spell checking, for example -- a feature that is going to be tough to implement in any efficient manner in the Java environment.
In evaluating JBuilder as a possible language choice, I've decided [I think] our companies won't use it for the time being, absent some extremely compelling situation demanding platform independence -- of which we have little need.
In some ways, I don't see it as a step forward, but rather, as a step backward. Aside from obvious efficiency considerations, there are structural aspects I don't care for as well as language constructs that drain efficiency while contributing little. Sorry, I just don't see what everyone is so damned excited about....
Now, Rod, it's going to be tough, but don't take this as a personal attack --- |
