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In article <823335327.28831@williaj.demon.co.uk>, andrew@williaj.demon.co.uk 
says...
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>hraiser@cloud9.net wrote:
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>>Chung Hong (chungh@Hawaii.Edu) wrote:
>>: So what?  VB will still be a messed up mutated language with severe limits
>>: and incredibly frustrating to use, especially when compared with the other
>>: development tools out there like Delphi.  If you've used VB and Delphi 
both,
>>: you'd realize that VB has much deeper problems than what including a new
>>: VB-compiler will be able to resolve. 
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>>  No compiler can compensate for a weak, cumbersome, limited language like
>>(Viusal) Basic.  Delphi has an excellent environment, but nothing on heaven
>>or Earth can make me go back to coding Pascal.  Smart money is on Latte,
>>Borland's upcoming Java based programming environment, based on the Delphi
>>front end.
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>Isn't Java an interpreted language?

No, it's just implemented that way. There is nothing in the Java language 
definition that prevents compiling Java, and, in fact, a just-in-time compiler 
for Java can yield 2x-15x speed improvements.
	-- Pete