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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?


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.



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