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To: rhet0ric who wrote (10624)	4/1/1998 8:27:00 PM
From: Matthew Johnson	Read Replies (1) of 213176

Hi all (Warning: This is way off the topic and i am a freebie) Thank you for the warm welcome i received from my first nervous post. I must say that i really enjoy reading this thread daily. It is not often that I would have a opportunity to make a posting as I know very little about stocks (I don't even understand what is meant by bullish or bearish) but thats ok I am enjoying learning from you infinitely smarter investors. I am a technical person. A computer programmer by trade I just wanted to take exception to a point made by rhetoric: > I disagree with your view that Java is merely a language. Yes, it is >a language, and a very good one. The Java developer at my company >finds it massively superior as a language to C or C++. Java is a GREAT beginners language. Java is basically C++ without all the good stuff in it(C++ --). This "stuff" was taken out to simplify the language so the Java Virtual Machine could be smaller and therefore faster. also it makes coding alot easier. But please you cannot tell me taking abilities out of a language makes it a superior language. I can do all you can do in Java in C++(or C for that matter) and much much more. Faster and more efficiently I might add. The REAL advantage that Java has promised is basically the cross platform libraries. Much like the Yellow box libraries. The actual language of Java is not important. If somebody writes a C/C++ compiler that compiles to Java Byte Code the I think that the Java Language would die a horrible death but the class libraries would live on and florish. I really don't like the Java Hype because as a ex-Java developer it was my task to write a cross platform tool in Java. This was the worst programming experience of my life. Java is just not cross-platform, hell its not even cross-browser. This was about 1.5 years ago and I am sure things have improved dramatically. But it just doesn't change the fact that Java just ain't C/C++. sorry about all that. I just hate the hype. Matthew

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