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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (18276)	10/31/1997 10:45:00 AM
From: David A. Lethe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

>Applications written in C slower than JAVA Paul, I am pretty sure you accidently switched this around... >JAVA serves that purpose at the low end now dominated by BASIC. One can carve out a series of applications at the low end that would appeal to NOVL's 3.X customers. Exactly! JAVA is not the proper language for large projects such as accounting packages, word processors, and SQL Database engines. It is for smaller programs, applets, etc.. It is unfortunate that more people aren't aware of the proper place for this language. JAVA, C/C++, COBOL, BASIC, PL/1 (I'm dating myself), are all just languages designed to prevent a programmer from writing code in ones and zeros. JAVA has +/- like any other language. It isn't the holy grail, and all software won't eventually get ported there. Corel wasted a lot of money learning the hard way that JAVA isn't the best language for office automation software. David