On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:06:49PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > Rutger Ovidius writes: > > Java is a simple language, used as the intro learning language in most > > universities that I know of. Not having to plan memory management like > > c++ motivates very fast development. Compiling small utils with it and > > having them be portable, even on GNU systems, is an incredible selling > > point. > > Is it really? There are users out there insane enough to be passing > around precompiled binaries of small utils?
Yes. They're called "applets". They run in your web browser.
