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- From: jtessin@netcom.com (John Tessin)
- Subject: Re: Advice to Java proponents (was Re: Will Java kill C++?)
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- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 22:44:31 GMT
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- Mik Clarke (raz89@dial.pipex.com) wrote:
- : Java will be dead after 16 years (at least it had better be). Most
-
- It may be sooner than that. I just saw a reference to something that I
- interpret as Visual Basic for the net. IOW - the web clients can use it
- like java scripts. If my ass-umption, when I scanned it, is right, java
- may pass into oblivion real soon. There are far more people out there, who
- fancy themselves programmers, that know Basic. BTW - I believe MS is at
- the bottom of this.
-
- Note: I may be full of it as I saw the reference for it last night late.
- IOW - I was tired. There was a tie, as I recall, to the MS browser, (I
- forgot it's name).
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