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To: David R who wrote (7288)	11/11/1997 11:20:00 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 10836

Most users of Java re still in the discovbery stage. There is not much Java revenue out there (relatively speaking). I believe that the press' infatuation with Java is dying down. David, I believe you are correct about this. Java's time will come; however, people are starting to realize that it really is not the solution to all problems. I'm sure we'll see a few serious Java apps (Lotus/Corel/etc), but it is clear to me that these initial attempts will not offer the kind of power we have come to expect from today's Windows apps. Contrary to popular opinion, I continue to believe that other languages offer a lot of stuff that Java does not, and as a result, Java may NEVER live up to the hype surrounding it. For example, we had a discussion here a while back about a "Virtual Machine" that would be used for processing not only Java, but the "byte code" of other languages, as well (of course, "byte code" is fundamentally no different from any other "p-code"). Now, how big of a stretch is it to have c++ running on a Virtual Machine? Not much. And when there is a huge corpus of everything from C++ to COBOL, I can see a lot of reason to have alternatives to Java. If you get these other languages running on runtimes (sorry, I mean VM's) of different platforms, I have trouble seeing why we really need another language. Not trying to begin another argument, but I think Java has seen the hype at its peak. While I think it will come along, it may well be supplanted by some other language that has superior features yet. It's tough to pick a language. Who knows which way this ship is headed?