[Info-vax] OT: Larry Ellison takes retirement as CEO of Oracle

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-09-19, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
wrote:
> On 2014-09-19, Tom Adams <w.tom.adams at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm having to port a Java applet because Oracle screwed up the JVM.  Porting
>> it to GWT.  (OT, not about VMS, just had to vent.)
>
> And I'm about to get stuck into the world of writing Android code.
>
> Given the current situation with Java, I'm seriously tempted to just
> bypass the Android Java variant and just write native mode code.
>
> That has the _major_ advantage that non-architecture specific code
> can be abstracted out into it's own library and easily reused on
> something like a normal Linux box.

iOS too.  Earlier today I came across someone using C++ for iOS, got 
curious, and came up with this link about using C++ for both Android and
iOS:

<http://www.crickettechnology.com/blog/?p=71>

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