In article <uce-1C2679.07120702032008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Gregory Weston <uce@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <fqds5k$p74$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "Mr. X." <no_spam_please@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Does Java work on Macintosh (the Sun's Java),
>
> Yes.
>
> > and what OSs are most populate on Macintosh ?
>
> Mac OS X. Probably today some sub-version of 10.4 holds a ****rnking lead
> with 10.5 growing, 10.3 tiny but still present and anything older
> negligible.
>
> > (I wonder if there is Microsoft OS on Macintosh,
>
> Not in the sense of an OS developed by Microsoft to run on Macs.
> Generally people buy Macs to run Mac OS. Sometimes Linux or BSD
> alongside or (much rarer) instead. But if you're going to run a
> Microsoft OS, you might as well buy a machine that Microsoft had a hand
> in spec'ing or a home-built close match for such a machine. Modern Macs
> (the Intel-based ones) can run Windows well and there's a numerically
> large but relatively small minority who do so because they have to.
>
> > and does it sup****t Suns' Java on that System, since I know Microsoft
and
> > Sun are not friendly-cooperated).
>
> If you run Windows on a Mac, it'll sup****t Java as well as that same
> version of Windows on a commodity x86 box. Last time I checked, Java on
> Windows wasn't much of a problem despite the cor****ate animosity between
> Microsoft and [anyone who publishes any product that competes with any
> Microsoft product].
>
> > Also,
> > I want to know more on Macintosh.
> > How survive among all the PCs,
>
> You do you work. When you need to exchange data you use either commodity
> formats (for most things) or Office when you need to.
>
> > and what is it compitabilities and softwares
> > that can run also on PCs (Intel) and on Macintosh,
>
> Too large a number to list.
>
> > and if I need to decide what is the preffered language - what should I
> > decide to develop on ?
>
> If you want to develop software *for* Macs, the way to go today is the
> Objective-C language and the Cocoa libraries. There are freely-available
> development tools from Apple to work on. There are other languages that
> can also leverage Cocoa, such as Perl, Ruby and AppleScript. You *can*
> use just about any language you can name, though. I've just confirmed
> that there are sup****ted builds of Icon and J on the Mac, for example.
> Hard to get more niche than those, but there they are.
Is there an Intercal for Macintosh?
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