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- From: milod@netcom.com (John DiCamillo)
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Message-ID: <milodDpnJp9.620@netcom.com>
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- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 15:15:09 GMT
- Sender: milod@netcom16.netcom.com
-
- denatale@nando.net (Rick DeNatale) writes:
-
- >Now if Java, which is effectively a poorly implemented stripped down
- >version of Smalltalk with a C++ flavored syntax, and lacking a few
- >important features (like block closures), can do the job, good for it.
-
- Yet another "Java is REALLY x with C++ syntax" argument. (So far, I've
- heard x = (in alphabetical order) Ada, Eiffel, Modula3, and Smalltalk.)
- Except of course, the real difference between Java and any of these is
- that Java is actually popular.
-
- >I have my doubts however, due to it being let out into the cold cruel world
- >without all of the support it needs. It also is riding the bubble of the
- >WEB environment, which while useful, looks like it is being overhyped as
- >the universal UI so that companies can use Netscape as the '90s version
- >of a 3270 and get thin clients which they seem to believe will run on late
- >'80s hardware that they don't want to upgrade. The backlash to that idea
- >seems relatively inevitable,
-
- Some of this is true, but I expect that Java support will be available
- pretty darn quick, considering the amounts of money that are being
- thrown at the problem.
-
- >and besides when we're talking about
- >browser/web server programming we're really talking about JavaScript which
- >really isn't the same thing as Java at all.
-
- I have no idea why you believe that. In fact, it makes me wonder whether
- you've actually used Java or not.
-
- --
- ciao,
- milo
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