On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:56:04AM +1000, Stephen Thorne wrote:
> On 5/4/06, Zach <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Java would be ideal language for such a task. You can run the utility
> > as a web app or standalone on the host machine. Will only have minimal
> > effort to run it on a wide variety of platforms.
> Java is far from ideal. It's a language that's not shipped with debian
> OR redhat linux.

Perhaps you are not considering gcj? :-)

Eclipse works with gcj in Fedora Core 4 and 5.

Java is quite ideal, and preferable to VB. Although, with Mono, there is
a chance that VB code may run on Linux.

Cheers,
mark

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