Can Java just shoot me?

[Chris G]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:21:14PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> Using Java as a general purpose programming language is a whole
>> different ball game, it's something I'm involved in where I work but
>> it has nothing whatever to do with browsers or the web.
>
> And you have no interest in remote execution without being locked into 
> specific hardware or operating systems?
>
Although Java is much more platform independent than many other
languages it still isn't platform independent enough for this to
really work.

It works in a browser environment because that is a much more limited
environment than a complete OS and there Java *can* be pretty well
platform independent.

-- 
Chris Green