Kevin Brosius on Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:07:11 -0500 |
Bill Jonas wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:43:11PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > > Too much shooting. Better just to remember that I have yet to see > > Java employed in *any* truly useful application (please, let's not > > get in a fight over this, folks), and laugh at the silly language. > > I don't mean to get into a fight ;) , but an interesting application of > Java is at > <http://www.merckeurolab.de/app/GenericPage?page=/search/molecular.jsp>. > Basically, it's a molecular search engine; you drag atoms onto it to make > molecules, and it will then search the catalog for chemicals containing > that molecular sequence. Trivial? Possibly. Interesting? Definitely. > Interesting, yes. That's just neat. And it didn't lock up my version of Netscape on Solaris. So who do they call if I enter an explosive formula? ;-) > (Apologies for not having a link in English; this is one of my employer's > clients (although we didn't write this particular application).) > > -- > Bill Jonas | "In contrast to the What You See Is What You > bill@billjonas.com | Get (WYSIWYG) philosophy, UNIX is the You > http://www.billjonas.com/ | Asked For It, You Got It operating system." > http://www.debian.org/ | --Scott Lee, as quoted by Lamb and Robbins > -- Kevin Brosius ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug
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