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- From: ell@access4.digex.net (Ell)
- Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
- Date: 16 Mar 1996 01:18:55 GMT
- Organization: The Universe
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- Ell (ell@access5.digex.net) wrote:
- : Robert C. Martin (rmartin@oma.com) wrote:
- : : ell@access1.digex.net (Ell) writes:
- : : What is [it] 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.
-
- To correct myself, (and be less strident) I am interested in how the
- features of the languages compare in the environments where they are, or
- may be, both used. So that I am interested in what difference it makes
- that C++ can only offer what Java does with libraries in the same
- environment, or conditions. [Remembering that C++ offers things without
- libraries in the same environment, or conditions, where Java would
- require library support.]
-
- Elliott
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