My bot plan. Need help.

[iago]

The simple answer is, "You run it the same way you run it under Dos".

In other words, you get a commandline (which Mephisto explained about), and you type the program's name.  The commandline is actually like :"cmd.exe" running, except on the remote server.

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

If you're going to be using Linux you'll need to compile your programs on Linux, or a Linux compatable OS, unless you're using a language like Java (ew).

I'll race you. I'll write a program in Java or Python, you write it in C/C++/ASM. If you can write a cross-platform program and our two programs are exactly compatible and you finish before me, you win.

[Forged]

NetBeans is horrific. Slow, bulky, ugly, totally ew.

So like Java?

[tA-Kane]

Is NetBeans written in Java?

A language isn't _truly_ awesome until it can write its own de/compiler.

[OnlyMeat]

Is NetBeans written in Java?

A language isn't _truly_ awesome until it can write its own de/compiler.

And how exactly would you compile the compiler the first time?

Also the java JIT is so slow it would take forever to compile a program.

If you are going to make a program why not just make it the best it can be rather than a sluggish bloated peice of crap that java produces?

Even C# and vb.net are faster than java overall as they only JIT methods once per program lifetime. And before you say they are not cross platform their are projects developing .net JIT's for other platforms

[MyndFyre]

Is NetBeans written in Java?

A language isn't _truly_ awesome until it can write its own de/compiler.

And how exactly would you compile the compiler the first time?

Also the java JIT is so slow it would take forever to compile a program.

If you are going to make a program why not just make it the best it can be rather than a sluggish bloated peice of crap that java produces?

Even C# and vb.net are faster than java overall as they only JIT methods once per program lifetime. And before you say they are not cross platform their are projects developing .net JIT's for other platforms

Well...  I wouldn't say that the Java JITter is extremely slow.  It's not that bad until you throw an exception.  But yes, the .NET languages do generally outperform Java (although this is not true of every operation).

For .NET on Linux: www.go-mono.com

For .NET on Mac: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3A1C93FA-7462-47D0-8E56-8DD34C6292F0&displaylang=en (Shared Source CLI)

[Arta]

I use Ultraedit for everything Visual Studio doesn't do

[iago]

Is NetBeans written in Java?

A language isn't _truly_ awesome until it can write its own de/compiler.

Yes, NetBeans is written in Java.  NO, it's not a compiler.  Java has only one compiler, it's called "javac", and it's proprietary and closed source (which is gay).

Why don't all y'all take a language debate somewhere useful, like its own thread? Or maybe somebody could clean up this thread.

But the bottem line is, use the right language for the project.  I'm not going to say that C or Java or Python or Perl are better, because they all have good points.  I would use different ones for different projects, depending on which was best suited for the job.  A programmer who can't do that will find himself doing extra work to implement features from one language in another.

Java is slower to run, but on modern computers it barely makes a difference.  Python runs even slower, but you can produce code a lot faster (I'd actually like to learn Python at some point, we'll see where that goes).  Perl runs fast for producing text files, but it gets messy when you start using functions and classes.  C/C++ take longer to write code in, but it's faster and you have more control.  Emacs Lisp is good if you're trying to do a specialized text file editor.  They all have uses, and a good programmer would know them all and know when it's appropriate to use one or the other.