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Re: java - what is it?

#853
From: Alan Boldock
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 00:00
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Maybe it should be
Java = C+++

they say born-again-Java programmers (ie C++ programmers who have seen the
light)
are the most critical!

perhaps in aus.computers.JAVA we should say

VB = C-1E-99  !!

sorry MS lovers!



"Paul Murray" <pmurray@nospam.bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:RdtT4.11008$X4.22212@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> > I think what he was trying to say
> > was
> > that it is
> > c-- (decremental c)
> > as opposed to
> > C++ (incremental c)
> >
> > in other words he was saying java is crap
>
> I think he was specifically trying to say that java is just a lame version
> of C. I was trying to say that Java is not C and isn't trying to be. Java
is
> for different things.
>
>
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