In article <39102CA5.E5C033B at biokin.com>, Petr Kuzmic <pkuzmic at biokin.com>
wrote:
> Herbert M Sauro wrote:
> >
> > Korbinian Strimmer <strimmer at ermine.ox.ac.uk> wrote in message
> > > > Which language will be "the language" in Bioinformatics, Java or C++?
> ...
> > So that do the companies I've worked for use? Well they certainly use Java
> > but on the whole only for server side work, GUI applications written in Java
> > tend to be slow and cumbersome...
>> I use Java to design *portable* GUIs. The interfaces are not as fast as
> native code, but the portability surely is nice. Imagine compiling a
> moderately complex Java GUI on a Windows machine. You can then simply
> copy the binary byte-code to the Macintosh box, or a Linux box, or an
> OS/2 box,
Or RISC OS soon to be ported to the Psion netbook.
Cheers
Bob; running a RiscPC 700 with RISC OS 3.7 and a pentium co pro with win98
in the corner of the screen (unused) :-))).
--
Robert Hartley,
Centre for Cell Engineering,University of Glasgow,UK.
mail: rh at mblab.gla.ac.uk, Tel: ++44 (0)141 330 4756
Web : http://www.gla.ac.uk/Inter/CellEngineering
