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  1. Path: news.mel.aone.net.au!usenet
  2. From: njpayne@pcug.org.au (Nick Payne)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
  4. Subject: Re: Advice to Java proponents (was Re: Will Java kill C++?)
  5. Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 07:15:20 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <31774b44.0@cheese.pcug.org.au>
  7. References: <315BFB16.B74@isg.de> <4jgv6t$hon@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <4k3cdo$np5@taurus.adnc.com> <DpG1s1.GC9@research.att.com> <4k71f5$ot5@news2.ios.com> <31684F33.2528@ibm.net> <denatale-0804960926250001@grail1213.nando.net> <317364A8.696F@esec.ch>
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  10.  
  11. Oliver Plohmann <opl@esec.ch> wrote:
  12.  
  13. >in between Smaltalk and C++. This is what is needed! Tired of writing
  14. >a little app in Smalltalk which results in a 2 MB EXE-file that takes
  15. >several minutes to start up?
  16.  
  17. Download and try Sun's Java Workshop, which is written in Java. On a
  18. Pentium 100 with 64 meg of RAM it's so slow that you can see each of
  19. the toolbar buttons individually painting themselves on the screen...
  20.  
  21. Nick
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