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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (14281)11/19/1997 7:45:00 PM
From: Larry Sullivan  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
Maybe I didn't make myself clear enough. What I wrote was Java - is a language very much like C/C++ with ideas borrowed from other technologies like GC and bytecodes. I think Java is very interesting but by your own definition not very innovative

By this I meant that the language syntax is very much like C/C++ and the VM technologies (GC, bytecodes ,etc) were not invented by Sun but borrowed. I actually have no problem with this and think that this is very much the way most technology works and is great. I do have some difference of opinion about whether Microsoft is innovative or not and just pointing out that many of the companies today by your and Chaz's definitions are not innovative. Very few people have had the impact on computing that Wang, Metcalf (Ethernet) have had but this does not make the companies that implemented these ideas and brought products to market evil or bad.

As an aside along with these idividuals I would add Knuth. His work in data stuctures, algorithm analysis, searching and sorting are the basis of almost all modern software but I wouldn't argue that since Microsoft (or any software company) uses a binary tree or an AVL tree (didn't these guys try and patent AVL trees?) in some product that they were not innovative. Technology builds on top of itself.

Larry...
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