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Story: Gavin King unveils Red Hat's top secret Java Killer/Successor: The Ceylon Project Total Replies: 6
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tuxchick

Apr 13, 2011
2:04 PM EDT 		....with the corpses of countless Java killers.
Steven_Rosenber

Apr 13, 2011
2:27 PM EDT 		I finally weaned myself from my final Java-powered, browser-delivered app. Yeah!
gus3

Apr 13, 2011
6:39 PM EDT 		I suppose C# is one of the failed attempts to displace Java.
dinotrac

Apr 13, 2011
11:34 PM EDT 		gus3 --

It requires a generous definition of failed, though.

It's certainly failed to be cross platform, but is very big in Microsoft shops.
dthacker

Apr 14, 2011
2:35 AM EDT 		Hey, cool! Another language that will have lots of various versions conflicting with each other on the corporate desktop! I'm thrilled!
helios

Apr 14, 2011
12:26 PM EDT 		As long as I don't have to memorize a million rules for double quotes, I might take another stab at it.
hkwint

Apr 14, 2011
3:08 PM EDT 		Yeah, double quotes are a PITA. Yesterday I did them in DOS-Batch on Windows 7, once I did it in AWK and once in Python, and none of them make much sense.

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