[CS-FSLUG] Adopt a program?

Christopher Rose kf6snj at lycos.com
Sat Oct 16 12:19:03 CDT 2004


I have downloaded and installed Gned and also downloaded the source code so that I can examine it. I will probably get a book from the library about java today. I think this may be fun to check out. However, I do doubt that I will be doing any "real" development work on it. I might try tinkering with it, but that is about it. Anyway, I do thank you for the opportunity.

Pax,

Christopher



----- Original Message -----
From: "N. Thompson" <n.thomp at sasktel.net>
To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group." <Christiansource at ofb.biz>
Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Adopt a program?
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:05:25 -0600

> 
> Its a common myth that Java and Javascript are the same, Javascript however is 
> more on par with a scripting language, it was created by Netscape to allow 
> people to make their web pages more interesting. Javascript is a loosly typed 
> language (1 universal type of variable), its syntax like that of Java does 
> seem to have both components of procedural programming as well as object 
> oriented. Java on the other hand was created by Sun Microsystems, requires a 
> Java runtime environment and is a strictly typed programming language 
> (different types of variables such as Strings, Booleans, Integers etc...) and 
> has a much larger API then Javascript does. The two languages are 
> incompatible however you can get Javascript interpreters for Java and you can 
> also integrate them into your Java applications.
> 
> In order to try and use Gned you will require a Java Runtime Environment 
> (JRE), in order to develop Gned you will require a Java Developer Kit (JDK) 
> which includes the interpreter, the compiler, a debugger I think and the Jar 
> package creation tool which is similar to using tar or perhaps zip from the 
> command line. You can get these at
> http://www.java.com -- Easy way just to get the JRE.
> http://java.sun.com -- Java's main resource page, here you can get the JRE and 
> the JDK, I would personally reccomend version 1.5 which Sun also calls 5 
> since they've decided to transition over to that after Java 1.2 was called 
> Java 2 for a long time, its significantly faster then its predecessors and 
> with Java that is a much needed improvement since it is slower then C/C++, 
> Python, Perl, etc... to begin with.
> 
> On October 9, 2004 09:37 am, Christopher Rose wrote:
> > Hmm... I will have to check and see if javascript was built into Grey Cat
> > or not. I will let you know soon as I find out. I am still running all my
> > internet and home applications via Red Hat 9. However, I do find Gned
> > somewhat intriguing.
> >
> > I will get back to you soon.
> >
> > Pax,
> >
> > Christopher
> >
> [snip]
> 
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