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To: Kal who wrote (1505)	2/19/1999 1:43:00 PM
From: Prognosticator	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

I have experienced what feels like a 10x productivity performance using Java: I simply have to write 1/10 the amount of code to get the job done, because of the wonderfully rich class libraries, and logical object-oriented structure of the environment. It also helps that there is zero (count it: ZERO) rework when moving cross platform. I'm never going back to programming Windows, and I just hope that the performance of Java allows me to avoid programming a lot of native optimized code to get the performance improvements I need. And I used to be a strong Microsoft advocate. No longer. Unless they change their crass behavior. P.

To: Kal who wrote (1505)	2/19/1999 1:43:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

Companies are enthusiastically swistching to JAVA. It is more productive, easier to use/learn. It saves dollars (bottom line) I have a friend who claims he's 10 times more productive in JAVA. He is thougha C++ guru. Other people claim 50% to 200% more productivity. thank you very much. I don't argue that Java is a great language. As a platform, however, it leaves alot to be desired. I've written a bunch of things in Java and really liked it. But there are things that just don't make sense to do in Java. If you are writing an app where portability is the most important thing and performance is not at all, then Java is clearly the way to go. For a lot of front-end, database applications this is true, so a lot of businesses are using it. The productivity claims are suspect. You get an automatic increase because there is no compile time. You also get slower code. So when truly optimized compiled Java is used, that advantage will go away. I would claim that most people are 10 times more productive in Visual Basic than in C++.