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TheSaint · 08-23-2003, 08:00 AM

I hate to even post into this thread because most people are language bigots, but for me multi-platform is key. At 48 I am still maintaining some stuff I wrote 27 years ago. Some of that has been ported to different platforms twice each time costing more than it was to write the whole thing the first time.

So I write just about everything in java or PHP. I want to know that 10 years from now it will still run on whatever the #1 platform is.

90% of the time browser based gui is good enough so that is JSP or PHP.

For windows GUI I really like java applets (swing). They really aren't a good fit though if you are distributing an application, because its a real PIA to also distribute the Sun java plug in.

But for in-house development I use them... Netbeans is a cool free IDE available from Sun and lets you build gui visually in java almost like VB, nowhere near as hard as people think.

Delphi is great for something quick and dirty...

08-23-2003, 08:00 AM
TheSaint Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Everywhere at once Posts: 991	I hate to even post into this thread because most people are language bigots, but for me multi-platform is key. At 48 I am still maintaining some stuff I wrote 27 years ago. Some of that has been ported to different platforms twice each time costing more than it was to write the whole thing the first time. So I write just about everything in java or PHP. I want to know that 10 years from now it will still run on whatever the #1 platform is. 90% of the time browser based gui is good enough so that is JSP or PHP. For windows GUI I really like java applets (swing). They really aren't a good fit though if you are distributing an application, because its a real PIA to also distribute the Sun java plug in. But for in-house development I use them... Netbeans is a cool free IDE available from Sun and lets you build gui visually in java almost like VB, nowhere near as hard as people think. Delphi is great for something quick and dirty...