[ale] {OT} -- For the programmer on the list

[Geoffrey Myers]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
> On Jan 12, 2012 11:01 PM, "Wolf Halton" <wolf.halton at gmail.com 
> <mailto:wolf.halton at gmail.com>> wrote:
>  >
>  >.  I do not run JREs on all of my servers, so though "Write once, run 
> everywhere" sounds good in the marketing slicks, it would take extra 
> time and one more thing to maintain and upgrade.  I think I would rather 
> ./configure than have to maintain lots of java environments. 
>  >
>  >
> Write once run everywhere means bash to me. Every system I use has it :-)

ksh rulez!

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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