Re: Obj-C vs Java
Re: Obj-C vs Java
- Subject: Re: Obj-C vs Java
- From: Christophe Laprun <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:52:20 -0400
- Organization: NIST
Scott Anguish wrote:
and it is a developer tool no? It also seems to be FREE from Sun
for all but the fully licensed internet version.
Developer tools don't count as desktop apps?
whether people are making money writing the apps, doesn't mean that
they are great apps (the criteria that you used to start this off).
Looking through the list you mentioned, a large percentage were
small freeware utils or classes/APIs. but not consumer apps. And most
seem to be aimed at where Sun is currently trying to sell Java... the
'server' side of applications...
Even though I agree with the fact that they aren't many consumer apps
developed in Java, there are still pretty impressive desktop apps
written in Java. In particular, the ones that I use daily:
Together and JBuilder. I know also about research tools for linguistic
annotations written in Java (audio-video annotation/transcription)... So
no, there isn't any Java version of Word but that doesn't mean that
there aren't any impressive desktop apps written in Java.
Best,
Chris
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