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[Peter Gibbons]

There isn't one. At least not with the standard JDK.

In contast scala.exe works in both interactive and 'batch' modes.

Just to clarify.

[Walter Mitty]

I did one gig where they were running Oracle on AIX.  for a variety of reasons, this turned out to be a bummer of a gig.  But the reasons had nothing to do with AIX or Oracle.  The infrastructure was very solid here.

And even though I was very unfamiliar with *nix,  AIX turned out to be easy to adapt to.  Must be the good documentation.

[ilconsiglliere]

AIX is just another flavor of *nix. If you know HP-UX or Solaris you can pick it up. There are some differences in commands and what not. Speaking as a Bell head that also worked on MVS I can see where the MVS people influenced AIX. Many of the AIX subsystems are very MVS like which is not necessarily a bad thing.

Personally I like C/C++ over Java. Have never cared for Java. To me the language has always appeared bloated and unreadable object.object.object.function = object.object . It made me insane and I stayed away from it. In my experience its not as quick as C though they say it is now. C if written properly is insanely fast.

I do neither now. I dabbled with Objective C for a while before 5 billion people poured into the Mac environment for the new gold rush with mobile apps.