Grumpy old men, a thousandfold. Topic: a story about
Sun Microsystems working to get a
JDK happening on
BeOS...
Statler: "Java is dog slow. And it isn't even software libre!"
Waldorf: "And why can't Sun get&us a full-blown Linux port before they help all these Tom, Dick, and Harry fringe operating systems?"
S: "And why can't folks just use C? It's so much faster."
W: "C? You old softie! Why can't you be man enough to code in assembly?"