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- From: matt@postoffice.pbinet.com
- Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 23:13:15 GMT
- Organization: Embedded Systems Developer using OS2
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- I am not following up on any thread, but wish to re-focus the
- question on what exactly JAVA means to internet users, not
- to Internet developers.
-
- For instance, does Java make it easier for the user to find a pair
- of shoes for sale, of the right type and right price? How does it do
- this?
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- Does JAVA let me ask:
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- TennisShoes.atPrice() < $20
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- How does JAVA let me do this? Possibly the answer is that JAVA lets
- me do this just fine if all the shoe stores agree on what a ShoeForSale
- object is, but that begs the question. After all, JAVA does not directly
- help shoe stores agree on some common definitions, or does it?
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- Matt Young
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