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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SunSpot who wrote (42681)	4/21/2000 6:51:00 PM
From: Byron Xiao	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

If you think USA invented everything, here are a few things Actually, HTML sucks. All static tag based stuff, a useful tool, yes, a great invention? No, not by a long shot. XML is the future, NOT HTML. C++ is such a great invention? Talk to the guy who invented Java, Billy Joy, who is an American. I don't expect to tell you that Java is a much better Object Oriented Language than C++. Because I expect you to know that. And what about all those tools that come with Java: java beans, JNI, JINI, JAR runner, Java Servlets, Java Server Pages... They are developed by who? Americans. And Linux, the brain child of one great Linus Torvald, who by the way, isn't a Danish guy, but a Finish guy, originated from the BSD UNIX, which in turn, came from the Bell Lab. And the fathers of UNIX is Dennis Richie and Ken Thompson, 100% pure American. Torvald probably deserves only 1% of the credit of the popularity of the UNIX systems nowadays in the world. He did not invent the concepts of preemptive multitasking kernel, interprocess communication, network programming, file system, Network file system, which are so essential in today's computing world. Those are invented by America. The only Danish guy who made significant contribution to the theorical side of Computer Science is Dijkstra. ISDN is such a great idea? Wake up! What people are using now to get broadband? NOT ISDN, but DSL, Cable modem. And who invented them? Americans. What we should thank were all the pioneering European physicts, chemists, greek philosophers, people like Isaac Newton, Gauss, Galielo, Einstein. Without them, we wouldn't have the civilazation today. But American have long passed you guys by. Live with it and deal with it. If everything made with a brain would be a property, HTML would be owned by Europeans, since we invented the stuff. Ever thought about that? made by europeans: HTTP, HTML, WML/WAP, Bluetooth (named after a Danish King), GSM (worlds largest system for cellular phones), ISDN (worlds largest system for digital telephony), Pascal, C++ (Danish guy), Linux, Compact Disc (together with japanese Sony).