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Hello! I'm a web developer and have not ventured outside of the AJAX threads. However, we're trying to take on a desktop application project here at work, and I'm wondering what language to specify it to be built in. We have programmers in C++ and Java (as well as C).

Basically, we're wanting to create a desktop app. I've heard that Java runs on a 'virtual machine' which seems like it could introduce a whole new set of problems. Can C be compiled and run as an app like Photoshop and Microsoft Word? Or does Java do this as well?

Are there any good resources for me to learn the basics of this?

Thanks!

THT

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Was your other thread not good enough?

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Ha ha ha. I thought it hadn't posted. So, basically, I can get someone to code it in Java and then compile it? What's the difference in Java and C?

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>What's the difference in Java and C?
It depends on the application. You can't compare two programming languages without any context. That's silly and unproductive.

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