>>>>> "michaelb" == michaelb <michaelb at real-time.com> writes: michaelb> I'll throw this out since noone else has... with Java michaelb> you have your choice of multiple free and commercial michaelb> IDEs that run on Windows and Linux. You could develop michaelb> on Linux OR on Windows and then deploy on either or michaelb> both. I am familar with both JBuilder and Eclipse. michaelb> Both are excellent IDEs, however only JBuilder will give michaelb> you a Visual Basic like experience, because the last michaelb> time I checked Eclipse did not have a GUI painter. OK, here's my troll response. Java: yuck. 1. Development is every bit as nitpicky and time-consuming as C++. Give me an interpreter or give me death! 2. Pig slow. 3. Write once, run everywhere. After you've installed about forty-two versions of the JVM and jar files that work with your app, because Sun and everybody else change the libraries every twenty minutes. Now let me see, does that run on 1.4.2 or only 1.3.1? Oh, you developed it to be portable with a PDA, so it needs 1.1.8? AAAACK. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list