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To: Kal who wrote (1505)	2/19/1999 1:43:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (1) of 1600

Companies are enthusiastically swistching to JAVA. It is more productive, easier to use/learn. It saves dollars (bottom line) I have a friend who claims he's 10 times more productive in JAVA. He is thougha C++ guru. Other people claim 50% to 200% more productivity. thank you very much. I don't argue that Java is a great language. As a platform, however, it leaves alot to be desired. I've written a bunch of things in Java and really liked it. But there are things that just don't make sense to do in Java. If you are writing an app where portability is the most important thing and performance is not at all, then Java is clearly the way to go. For a lot of front-end, database applications this is true, so a lot of businesses are using it. The productivity claims are suspect. You get an automatic increase because there is no compile time. You also get slower code. So when truly optimized compiled Java is used, that advantage will go away. I would claim that most people are 10 times more productive in Visual Basic than in C++.

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