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- From: ell@access5.digex.net (Ell)
- Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
- Followup-To: comp.object,comp.lang.c++
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 14:59:20 GMT
- Organization: The Universe
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- Robert C. Martin (rmartin@oma.com) wrote:
- : In article <4i40ik$9dt@news4.digex.net> ell@access1.digex.net (Ell) writes:
- : What is you can do in Java, you can't do as easily with a library in C++?
-
- : This isn't the right question. Java's power has nothing to do with
- : what the *language* itself can or cannot do in comparison to what C++
- : can or cannot do. Java's power comes from the *environment* in which
- : it executes.
-
- That was the right question for me! My question took the environment as a
- granted. How can anything be analyzed outside of an environment?!
- Further part of the environment includes each language having built in
- support for features the other doesn't have. Does it make a difference?
- That was the point of _my_ question.
-
- Elliott
-