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   Hallo Gerrit!   
      
    GK> I have a smarthome solution that is running on java (on an RPI)   
    GK> just fine.   
      
   Which OS and what java compiler or do you cross-compile for it?  Either way I   
   am guessing openjdk which is Oracle's vertsion of the java they 'inherited'   
   from Sun Microsystems when they bought them out.   
      
    GK> Java certainly has its place for many different things, I'm using   
    GK> it for more than 20 years now. Strong-typed,   
    GK> platform-independent, memory-safe, fast... I like it.   
      
   It was the platform independent part which almost 'suckered' me in way back in   
   the early 1990's sometime.  At the time I had access to Sparc machines which   
   is where all the good stuff was especially the gcc compilers which at the time   
   was my goto compiler.  After doing some research on java at the time I stuck   
   with straight gcc and haven't looked back since.  If I had been more of a   
   'regular' user java might have won me over but I was already used to doing   
   everything in C or C-like (eg shell scripting) so there was never an appeal to   
   java since my home pc was also C based ... albiet running a DOS ... not MS   
   btw.  ;-)   
      
   If Linux hadn't come along I would probably be running FreeBSD now ... or   
   nothing.  Linux was a godsend - especially Slackware - and gcc greatly   
   assisted the yummy builtin godsendness.  So much for java.   
      
   Het leven is goed,   
   Maurice   
      
   ... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.   
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