Article:		A First Look at the Kowari Triplestore
Subject:		Confusing (non-)distinction
Date:		2004-07-02 00:03:32
From:		Paul Ford
Response to: Confusing (non-)distinction
"Er, if Perl and Python are "host languages", then Java is one as well." Sure, agreed. I should have been more clear. My point is that Java's a very common language that an awful lot of people seem to have installed, and downloading jars and doubleclicking them is much easier than downloading a tar.gz file, unpacking it, checking dependencies, running the build script, and then invoking the script. Even perl -MCPAN -eshell isn't as easy. I don't like coding in Java, but I am partial to how easy it is to install compiled Java software. It just seems to be in a different league than other languages in terms of deployment, and that seemed worth noting.

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