[Zope] Re: Zope XML Roadmap

Christopher Petrilli petrilli@digicool.com
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:18:24 -0400


>> Aside from the porting effort I realize that there are speed issues, 
>> but for some of us portability and the simple extensibility offered
>> by the JPython /Java combination outweigh speed considerations.
>
> I'm pretty shocked to hear a claim that Java is portable.  Seriously, do
> the xBSD, Mac OS X Server, and other non-standard platforms have
> reasonable Java?

Real world experience has shown Python infinately more portable, there are
good JVMs on xBSD, MacOS, Linux, etc., but they each have some pretty major
incompatibilities...

Chris

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