It looks like you'll have more success running Java apps when Java is working properly.
Which some would consider a contradiction in terms.
SIMSCA! Hopefully, this will become more obvious once he gets it working.
<rant> The whole virtual machine concept implies that you are not to be trusted as a developer. You are expected to trust the language vendor more than your own programming skills.
While comfortable and cozy, this method incrementally takes away a great liberty, and emasculates the deep inner desire to singlehandedly take over the world which is beating in the heart of any true geek. Java has cross-platform merits, but clearly, it was designed by the marketing department, not by the geek squad. The fact that it is so popular is indicative of the current sad status of programming in general, which fell quickly from its more pure origins, where all programmers intuitively understood such principles.
If you can't crash a server, and crash it big with buggy inline assembler, how are you ever going to learn grace under pressure, which is a necessary component of any responsible world domination plan? ;) </rant>
-Jared
p.s. SIMSCA. Sitting In My Seat Chuckling Aloud. Kind of like ROTFL, but a little more gentlemanly.
On Sunday 25 February 2007 02:40:08 pm Jared wrote:
The whole virtual machine concept implies that you are not to be trusted as a developer. You are expected to trust the language vendor more than your own programming skills.
This isn't the concept of the virtual machine. After all, it's really just a extremely CISC CPU intended to be emulated. It's not part of the language.
Java has cross-platform merits, but clearly, it was designed by the marketing department, not by the geek squad.
Java has cross-platform merits not because of the virtual machine, but because of its extensive standard library giving abstractions for most of what people need to do. C and C++ can be generally cross-platform, provided you only use the standard library, but their stdlibs don't cover as much ground. Qt, on the other hand, builds on C++ and replaces its standard library with one that is more flexible and has a broader range of support, including the QtGui module which provides for graphical interfaces.
If you can't crash a server, and crash it big with buggy inline assembler, how are you ever going to learn grace under pressure, which is a necessary component of any responsible world domination plan? ;)
You can't, or at least shouldn't be able to, crash a server with mere userland code. In most cases, you can't provided the server has been setup properly (eg, limiting forks to prevent forkbombs).
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