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- From: markt@harlqn.co.uk (Mark Tillotson)
- Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
- Date: 15 Mar 96 15:05:13 GMT
- Organization: Harlequin Limited, Cambridge, England
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- In-reply-to: linden@positive.eng.sun.com's message of 15 Mar 1996 04:13:05 GMT
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- > It's really odd the way word seems to have spread that Java
- > doesn't have pointers. It's become the accepted wisdom, yet
- > it's quite wrong.
- >
- > Java has pointers (it calls them "references") and you can build
- > dynamic data structures in Java just as well as you can in C or C++.
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- I agree _totally_, but this world view is quite understandable given
- the wording in the Java white paper from Sun...
-
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