×
The internal search function is temporarily non-functional. The current search engine is no longer viable and we are researching alternatives.
As a stop gap measure, we are using Google's custom search engine service.
If you know of an easy to use, open source, search engine ... please contact support@midrange.com.
McKown, John skrev:
UNIX uses colons (and PASE is a kind-of UNIX). Windows, just to be a pain in the posterior, went with semi-colons. Billg can't stand to do anything like the rest of the world. Which is another reason that I despise Windows.
Not quite. Windows inherited its view of the world (notably files) from
MS-DOS which in turn started as a quick and dirty hack allowing to
easily run ported CP/M-80 programs.
In CP/M the colon meant something special in file names. Notably the
drive syntax, where A was the first floppy, B the second, and then C was
vacant for the next drive name when MS-DOS needed a drive letter for the
harddrive.
So Windows inherited the "drive-colon-path" syntax, but that again means
that if the separation symbol is colon, then the paths break. Sigh.
But again, Unix uses colons, as semicolons separate commands in shells.
Fortunately it is not so bad if you end up creating runnable/executable
jars as they allow relative classpaths in the manifest in the main jar file.
But the confusion is understandable - the silent failures of classpaths
is probably the singlemost source of problems for a new Java
programmer. Sigh.
This mailing list archive is Copyright 1997-2024 by midrange.com and David Gibbs as a compilation work. Use of the archive is restricted to research of a business or technical nature. Any other uses are prohibited. Full details are available on our policy page. If you have questions about this, please contact
[javascript protected email address].
Operating expenses for this site are earned using the Amazon Associate program and Google Adsense.
midrange.com
