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To: Pink Minion who wrote (768)	4/22/1998 4:56:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Respond to of 1600

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. I think Java is an excellent language. We use it heavily here on a project I am working on. The problem is, the SUN marketing machine is trying to make it something else - a pancea for all the worlds problems! 100% Pure Java (except Java3D, Enterprise Beans, PersonalJava, etc). I will accept that building network support into the language was innovative. OO principles are better represented in SmallTalk, so I really wouldn't consider that a great step forward. 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. You don't consider that innovative, but you consider OO design in a language innovative? I guess "innovation" is subjective.