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To: James Yu who wrote (26111)	11/23/1997 2:44:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583687

If you are going to write distributed applications you are going to use Java. Java is a general purpose programming environment like Visual Basic on Windows; unlike Visual Basic on Windows, Java can be used to develop reusable, extensible components as will as applications. Consequently, it obviates the need for legacy languages like BASIC, visual or otherwise. In replacing Visual Basic and propriety C++ frameworks (only the language is portable and standard, the frameworks are 100% pure Windows only code), you open the door to more and better hardware platforms based on modern, object-oriented APIs. Microsoft's DCOM technology is Windows NT only and not extensible. They have reusable objects, in a sense, but you can't derive specialized versions of them without a considerable effort. In Java and C++ it takes a small fraction of a single line of code to do that.