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denatale@nando.net (Rick DeNatale) writes:

>Now if Java, which is effectively a poorly implemented stripped down
>version of Smalltalk with a C++ flavored syntax, and lacking a few
>important features (like block closures), can do the job, good for it.

Yet another "Java is REALLY x with C++ syntax" argument. (So far, I've
heard x = (in alphabetical order) Ada, Eiffel, Modula3, and Smalltalk.)
Except of course, the real difference between Java and any of these is
that Java is actually popular.

>I have my doubts however, due to it being let out into the cold cruel world
>without all of the support it needs. It also is riding the bubble of the
>WEB environment, which while useful, looks like it is being overhyped as
>the universal UI so that companies can use  Netscape as the '90s version
>of a 3270 and get thin clients which they seem to believe will run on late
>'80s hardware that they don't want to upgrade. The backlash to that idea
>seems relatively inevitable,

Some of this is true, but I expect that Java support will be available
pretty darn quick, considering the amounts of money that are being
thrown at the problem.

>and besides when we're talking about
>browser/web server programming we're really talking about JavaScript which
>really isn't the same thing as Java at all.

I have no idea why you believe that.  In fact, it makes me wonder whether
you've actually used Java or not.

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    ciao,
    milo
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