I would respectfully have to disagree. I've been programming for about 30 years, but finally broke down and bought my first Mac about a year ago. It's a nice

I would respectfully have to disagree. I've been programming for about 30 years, but finally broke down and bought my first Mac about a year ago. It's a nice platform, and the native apps are a joy to use, compared to the sludge that most Windows apps are. Oh, and it lets me do most of what I have been doing on Linux the last 18 years. Not quite everything, but pretty close. No matter how much you tweak and tune a GC, there are still going to be times when it destroys "locality" in a hierarchical memory system and causes some kind of pause. For a small form entry program, this is probably negligible. As the size of the program and/or its data grows, or the time constraints grow tighter, these pauses will become more and more unacceptable. Most of my work the last 10 years has been in Java, but the JVM is not the one true path to enlightenment. TMTOWTDI :-)