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Hi :)
Similarly DocX promises to be cross-platform and able to be used by any
relevant program.  So did Rtf.  Whenever these things are in the hands of
single profit-making companies they don't seem to live up to promises or
expectations.  Ownership through a committee of a large number of
profit-making companies and others seems to make things more stable as long
as it's possible to pull any errant company back in-line if it fails to
implement it as per agreements.
Regards from
Tom :)




On 19 July 2014 12:50, Jim Seymour <jseymour@linxnet.com> wrote:

On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:16:49 +0100
Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:

[snip]

Oddly i still see a LOT of job adverts for programmers who can
write Java. I'm hoping that is to help companies migrate away or to
re-write existing java packages!
[snip]

How sad :(

Java had such great promise.  Java was *supposed* to be immune to all
this.  Instead, due to the realities of market pressures and the
scourge of poor design and coding, Java has become at least as bad a
word in the I.T. community as ActiveX -- possibly worse.

Plus it's a PITA to code in, has horrible load times, and "write
once, run anywhere" never did become fully real.

It was bad enough under Sun.  Now that Oracle owns it, I think it's
doomed.

Regards,
Jim
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