[H-GEN] Re: [H-CHAT] sigh... java vs VB programming woes...

[Martin Pool]

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On Thu, 18 May 2000, Raymond Smith wrote:

> I have heard of jikes before, I guess I've been sticking with javac while
> deadlines are tight...  

  http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/07/15/900540953.html

It should be a drop-in replacement: the command-line flags are a superset.  
Honestly, try taking 15 minutes to install it and compile your sourcebase.  
If it works you'll save lots of time in the future; if it doesn't you
haven't lost much.

> And jikes is written in C++ right? From a Java-bigot point of view
> this seems like caving in on principle :-P.

Well, on the other hand (unlike javac) jikes is under a genuine Open
Source license; so just put that bigot-hat on instead. :)

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