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To: Keith Rowland who wrote (18254)	3/27/1998 6:44:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

What's the point Keith? Sun sponsored jihad? Personally, I think Java is a good idea, and deserves to live or die on its own merits, not on how successful the embrace and demolish crowd is with their not so subtle sabotage plans. Who declared war on Dec. 7, 1995 anyway? If Java is so overhyped and pathetic, or fraudulent as Sal would say, why not let the whole thing just collapse from its obvious moral deficiencies? Windows will be there to pick up the pieces. Oh, I forgot, it'll all be replaced in a day, with no going back. As for C++ and Smalltalk, I'd say C++ and Simula would be more accurate, except that C++ was already C + simula, so it's sort of --(C++) + more Simula. Smalltalk has too much of this lispish open-endedness about it, where you can never quite track down all the default cases that the language processor allows to fall through. As for speech recognition, yeah, that's Bill's perpetual mantra. It's a tough problem, and for simple and straightforward things a bit silly. Open the drive bay door, Bob. I'll recycle another line, imagine a huge room full of Dilberts in their cubicles, yelling at their computers to do what they mean, not what they say. But who knows. Here's a contrary point of view. I apologize in advance for polluting this well informed forum with no-nothing articles from the press, which we all know exists only to sell advertising. On Dogma of Big Is Good, an Agnostic nytimes.com "The personal computer is fundamentally too complicated, and there is no silver bullet to fix it," he said at a recent conference. "Consumers don't care about technology -- they want low cost, simplicity or prestige. You go to the kitchen to use an egg beater, not to use an electric motor with a special wire attachment at one end." The quoted guy being Donald Norman, an old line human interface guy. Former academician, now with sometimes Wintel co-conspirator HP. He's obviously all wet, Bill's taking us where we want to go! NT for the home user! 30 million lines of code on every computer, before you even get to an application! So complex, it's simple! Who cares about the OS formerly known as Windows 97 anyway? Cheers, Dan.