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To: i-node who wrote (4988)	6/22/2000 9:05:00 PM
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Microsoft to announce Java Killer Language c# (that is, c-sharp): news.cnet.com Microsoft, once again tries to steal technologies based on other people's ideas. The new language will offer features available in Java but not available in C or C++. The features include better security and "garbage collection," which tidies up computer memory used in a software program, Microsoft executives said. Garbage collection is one of Java's most popular features because it can greatly reduce the complexity of application development. This is great, Microsoft innovates with garbage collection. What a marvelous new concept. Sources said Microsoft's initial plans also include offering a technology called Common Language Runtime, a universal engine that will allow software developers to use many types of programming languages to write Windows applications. Seems familiar. Can you spell P-S-E-U-D-O-C-O-D-E? "All languages will have equal footing on Windows," one source said. "You can pretty much develop on any type of language on the Windows system." The source summed up: "(Common Language Runtime) increases the openness of Windows...It's a universal engine to run (different) languages." Once again, Microsoft alters the course of computer science. The interesting part of this story is that it may really be another roadblock to any real success Java attains. Just as hungry moms flock to get the fine cuisine at McDonald's, software developers everywhere may well be falling all over themselves to get their hands on this pearl. Java may well be just a footnote in the annals of software development -- a mere missed turn -- corrected by another great Microsoft innovation.

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