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- Subject: Re: Java? Was: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
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- Date: 5 Feb 1996 14:31:10 -0500
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- Malcolm Coulter (mac@zeus.hsrc.ac.za) wrote:
- : Since I can never get into Sun's Java site, perhaps someone could clarify what
- : Java is.. I have heard the following:
- <snip>
-
- Java is an object oriented language much like C++, simpler, yet more
- robust from an object oriented standpoint. It "compiles" input files
- (containing, for the most part, individual classes) into Java Virtual
- Machine Language, which in turn is interpreted at run time by a Java
- interpreter, such as Sun's Hot Java or Netscape 2.0. Java does not create
- P-Code in the Visual Basic sense, the Virtual Java Machine Code the Java
- compiler produces can be run on any system capable running the virtual
- machine, thus Java obtains cross-platform portability with zero effort. You
- can think of the Java run time interpreter as more of an emulator than an
- interpreter. Java Script is Java's little brother. Java Script is a light
- weight version of Java primarily used to enhance Web Pages. Java Script is
- interpreted directly in source form, it is never compiled into byte codes.
-