Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Java mini-rant

I wrote my first Java code in 1996. Really, I did. You can probably find the applet on the wayback machine. I even wrote a custom Fortran compiler to convert LAPACK to Java source code in 1997.

Eventually, I gave up Java as unworkable on the desktop, too slow in the browser, and too difficult on the server side (Tomcat ca. 1991 anyone? Ugh).

It's now 2008.

I have a choice: use the JRE, or listen to iTunes.

But not both at the same time.

Since I am sure this must be a user error, I'll have to put in a CD and get back to c++.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

That's a shame - it's surely something with your particular install.

I run Eclipse all day long, which is a very taxing Java application, not to mention a bunch of ant builds and test runs (of Java apps) throughout the day, and iTunes doesn't skip a beat.