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- From: Richard Pitts <rpitts@atl.mindspring.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Java? Was: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 18:38:27 GMT
- Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc.
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- >Since I can never get into Sun's Java site, perhaps someone could clarify what
- >Java is.. I have heard the following:
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- Don't dump VB. Most of what you listed is true of Java except
- for creating EXE's. It doesn't now, and probably never will.
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- Java is for internet programming - completely hardware
- independent. All you need on the client side is a Java virtual
- machine (expect to see most internet browsers to include this
- support in the future).
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- Microsoft is responding to this with VB Script. An internet
- programming subset of VB.
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- Problems with both Java and VB Script: limited functionality of
- all types including limited database and file access; security
- concerns (i.e. executable code downloaded directly into memory
- and executed - virus check that!), performance over the net, etc,
- etc.
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- If you need to do internet programming, wait for VB script and
- leverage your VB knowledge there. Java is just like C++ so
- expect a steeper learning curve.
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- If you aren't doing internet programming, stick with VB!
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