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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: FJB who wrote (30988)4/4/1998 8:55:00 AM
From: Gregory   of 1583886
 
what is so special about this language? Does it claim to be the one that everybody is using?

The computer industry is quite old by now; and during these times there have been many many attempts to develop language that would become the only language being used by everybody. It really never worked. I am talking about higl level languages. like PLI C COBOL Fortran, etc, etc. The only common language is usually the Assembler (e.g X86 for PC or BAL 370 for mainframe IBM platform.

And even assembler when it is used as an application language is used by very specialized and narrow group of the application programmers
In case with assemblers it is system folks who write the software that operates on the level of operating system and not user applications.

So, so far the transition to Common language that embraces everything
was unsuccessfull in the sense that higher the language, the slower it is.

I beleive it is same with with Java. Like any language it is good for something, but not good for everything. As a matter of fact as any tool in any field. Any good automechanic always has different tools for different things and not one universal tool that can do evrything. Usually all universal tools gain somewhere but also loose in some other important issues.

Just my 2 cents.
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