An interesting year ahead was Re: Will Java kill C++?

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From: Scott Le Grand
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 01:39

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I just gotta add my two cents...

Microsoft is revving up its considerable muscle to kludge together a
secure (and we all know it won't be for years) MS Windows-specific
alternative to Java which will appeal to BASIC programmers...

Sun has a theoretically secure (though implementationally buggy) alternative
for C lovers everywhere that has been embraced by Netscape and is
"out there" already, rapidly gaining followers...

Who will win?  Who knows...  Microsoft is damned rich and can thrust
whatever it wants down people's throats, but Netscape is still a media
darling no matter how much bad press it gets...

One thing's for sure though... It's gonna be a really interesting
year as these two megaliths sumo-wrestle the web...  It's sort
of like that Windows versus Linux debate that never ends...

Me?  I'm cheering for Java, but don't look at me, I'm an Atari
Jaguar developer (that did everything under Linux), what the %$$% do 
I know?  (Well I know what a pain in the toosh programming a networked
3D game in assembler, divided into 4K cache chunks is, but is that a 
marketable skill or a sign of dementia?)

Next to that, Java is a piece of cake so far (but really slow)...

Scott

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