<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Nadav Har'El <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
If two programs are virtually identical, have the<br>
same features and quality, but one is written in C and takes 5 MB on disk<br>
and memory and the second is in Java and has its own copy of the JVM and<br>
takes 25 MB on disk and memory - which of the two do you think the<br>
distributions will pick up? Which do you think users will end up using?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I seriously think that the one the end users will be using is the one with the pink background and cute kittens in the toolbar, regardless of whatever you mentioned. I don't think history proved that the best software is the most used software (ie, ADA vs C for real-time systems).</div>
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