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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (762)	4/22/1998 3:59:00 PM
From: Pink Minion	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

Answer the question: what is innovative or creative about Java? Or at least, what do you find innovative or creative about Java? Besides it being the first true networking language, it incorporates very basic OO design patterns that every programmer should know about to build high quality applications. It also takes the best OO parts of C++, Smalltalk, and Objective C. Please don't say that is copying. If you think it is all marketing hype, you must know zero about OO programming. If you think browser/OS integration is "innovative", there explains the real problem since you do work in the industry (Or are you part of that PR campaign?). MS doesn't bother me as much as the Dilbert ineptness that gave them the power. Mr. B