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To: Tom C who wrote (6537)	10/18/1997 11:49:00 PM
From: Kashish King	of 10836

There isn't a day goes by that some signficant news about a significant new implementation of some service, tool or application in Java comes out. We have never seen anything generate this much industry wide support in such a short amount of time. Anybody who can sit there today and say that Java is just a language has got to have their head so far up their you-know-what that it's unlikely they even know what day this is. I strongly suggest anybody dumb enough to fall for the year-old Microsoft drivel about Java being a language apply for a job at Microsoft or run to the nearest Burger King before all the good time slots are taken. I have a fairly accurate analogy which can be applied should you come across such an ignoramus: Unix is a portable operating system and the well-known protocols and services are essentially portable components offered by each implementation. The Unix Programming Language (UPL) actually has a name, it is called C and most Unix software (including the operating system itself) is written in C. The importance the UPL to a Unix system is no more important than the JPL in Java systems: important but always optional and never precluding the use of other languages, including no language at all -- think about that one. Extend that thinking... Instead of a gillion different Unix', consider what would happen if not just some, but all of the services and protocols were standardized and offered as C++ classes, including a new component model for distributed objects. The benefits would be massive: code could be compiled to run on any Unix platform, and the new component model would allow inter-implementation cooperation between objects. Now consider Java.... The features of the Java runtime and the Java language are far superior to the much-improved scenario I just eluded to using C++. Microsoft's brain-dead, archaic, brittle, ten-year-old COM technology is not the answer. It makes me gag just thinking about it. Using the latest components of Windows 95 with the latest C++ wrappers provided by Microsoft is like going back 10 years in time with the comensurate ten-fold increase in effort just to do simple tasks.

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