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- From: hashik@matisse.its.rpi.edu (Ghod of Procrastination)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Advice to Java proponents (was Re: Will Java kill C++?)
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 13:23:03 GMT
- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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- John Tessin (jtessin@netcom.com) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- Unfortunately, VB will not be ported to the *ix platforms. That includes
- SGI's IRIX, Sun's SunOS and Solaris, IBM's AIX, DEC's OSF/2, Free Software
- Foundation's Linux, and other svr4 or 4.4bsd ports to other architectures.
- However, Java has already been ported to most, if not all, of these
- platforms already.
-
- : 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).
-
- MS Browser is the Explorer 2.0... I think =] I don't do Micro$oft (;
-
- [snippeth on .sig]
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- Nexx
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- Each day of a person's life is a battle;
- The entire life being the war.
- A war, not against anybody else;
- But one fought against oneself.
- One need never to fight alone;
- For one shalt always have companions of the heart.
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- The opinions expressed by myself are my opinions.
- they are not necessarily anybody else's!
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