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To: JAG who wrote (2014)12/10/1997 10:13:00 AM
From: Kashish King   of 3014
 
Java is really good at making small pieces and less good at making huge applications," says Paul Skillen, Corel's vice president of engineering.

Corel developed and acquired some early 80's style applications the were not built using modular components in part because they were written using a 70's style programming language. Given the number of software engineers out there that do not get object-oriented, component-based software design and development concepts, it's not surprising that a manager at Paul Skillen's level would make such an asinine statement. What is so patently ridiculous about this blather is that once you design and implement an arsenal of reuseable components for, say, wordprocessing, you combine those with existing, general purpose components provided by Java development tool vendors into a completed product. That's a gross simplification, but the point is simply this: there is no cutoff point for the number of components which can be pieced together to form an application in Java. It is pure nonsense to say that Java can't be used to make huge applications. What Paul Skillen should say is that you cannot port an 80's hairball design to a modern, component-based environment. What you had in Corel was an unfocused collection of ex-DOS hackers without the foggiest notion of how to design or implement an object-oriented software package in the first place, and who never tried in the second place. What they did was immediately start porting what must have been some of the ugliest software one could imagine into a new environment. Not very bright to say the least.
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