[PLUG] KDE apps on Gnome

[John Jason Jordan]

On Mon, 3 May 2010 17:59:20 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> dijo:

>On Mon, 3 May 2010, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
>> Now, I know someone is going to clobber me for saying this, but I
>> have yet to find a Java application that doesn't crash or have other
>> major bugs.
>
>   Take a look at jgnuash, a personal finance application. Installs
>everywhere (including where Gnucash won't) and runs like the Energizer
>bunny. Never had it crash and there are no identified bugs reported on
>the mail list.
>
>> My theory is that Java itself may be fine, but it attracts
>> inexperienced programmers.
>
>   You're probably thinking of PHP and Visual Basic. If you want to
> see a
>huge, complex, well-functioning java application take a look at Eclipse
><http://www.eclipse.org/>. Originally developed by IBM it's become a
>broadly-used development platform.

See how right I was? I said someone was going to clobber me for saying
it, and sure enough, Rich proved me right. :)