February 28, 2024

OPL & Java Comparison?

Wireless Watch (via The Register) has an interesting quote in an article based around IBM's Request for Java to be Open Sourced...

But even with these various changes, it remains difficult to get changes implemented through the Java Community Panel and the process has not encouraged the rapid accumulation of applications from small developers as languages like Psion's OPL do through their open source models.

...Okay it's not Psion's OPL anymore, it's yours (and ours) thanks to it being under LGPL, but thanks for the thought. I always wonder what would have happened if OPL had never been dropped, and the 5 years of lost development time had been spent nuturing all the authors we could have had, and the 100 or so active authors that would have been carried over from EPOC.

But that's in the past, and we've got to play the cards that we have. It's looking good, because throught the announcement of OPL for UIQ devices, I've had three old authors come back to OPL, ready to rejoin the fold. We may be about to turn the corner. Here's hoping.

Posted by Ewan at February 28, 2024 07:30 AM
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