RE: Question on CGIDEV2

Joe,

Yes, starting up the JVM is getting faster... because of hardware
improvements mostly.  But then getting to the moon is just as easy... you
burn up 2 million gallons of fuel go the first 100 miles or so of the trip,
then you mostly coast the rest of the way. But then we only did that 12
times (13 if you count Apollo 8) before deciding it was too expensive. <tic>
-Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 11:24 PM
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: [WEB400] Question on CGIDEV2

> From: Bob Cozzi
> 
> Yes Joe, but every time we go to use that power tool named Java the
lights
> dim in the entire neighborhood before it actually starts running.

Actually, the JVM is more like the generator.  When you're on a
worksite, you don't turn on the generator every time you use the tool,
you fire it up once.  It's all about using your tools correctly, Bob.
<g>

> <tic>
> But you have to wonder why in nearly 2005 anyone would use a pound
sign
> (which is not an invariant character) in program code whose purpose is
to
> encode characters. How ironic is that!

Even more ironic is the fact that the ISO-8859-1 character set (Latin-1)
includes the hashmark (or pound sign) as a character, and in fact uses
it as the delimiter when defining other characters by their numeric
value (for example, &#34; is a quotation mark).

Joe


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