[lug] Programming

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

I come to the discussion a bit late, but I've heard that Visual Basic
does not support threading.  Don't know how true this is or how much it
matters to you.

-d

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 at 19:39 -0700, Ed Hill soliloquized thusly:
> On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 18:53, jd wrote:
> > 
> > I decided to go with Java, for this application and my new language.
> > As Ed said, java is very well documented (java.sun.com/docs) and
> > its just like perl..well i have to decalare a few things 
> > and the lack of $ before vars is still hard for me to get used to ,
> > but look at my second "hello_world.java"...
> 
> 
> Hi jd,
> 
> As my North-Eastern friends would say, "Cool beans!"  ;-)
> 
> Also, check out java.io.File:
> 
>   http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/index.html
>   http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/java/io/File.html
> 
> which contains definitions for things such as path generation and
> parsing routines [eg. getPath(), getAbsolutePath()] that are platform
> independent (helpers for abstracting the path separator character and
> "root" of the file system).  If you develop on Linux and deploy to
> Windows, then you'll want to get acquainted with these methods.
> 
> good luck!
> Ed
> 


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