<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Jeff Chapin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chapinjeff@gmail.com">chapinjeff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I used to not be a fan of java, but I am starting to come around a bit<br>
more. The biggest three reasons I am starting to be a fan?<br>
</blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">I first started using all three of these programs in the last year or<br>
so, and my opinion of java has done a huge turn-around in that time.<br></blockquote></div><br>4. Startup time for Java used to be noticeably slow but it has gotten faster while startup time for many native apps has gotten slower, so Java doesn't stick out so much. Therefore the cross-platform benefit of Java doesn't have the dog-slow performance problem counterbalancing it like it used to. IMHO.<br clear="all">
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