Re: Will Java kill C++?

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From: Matt Kennel
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 18:26

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Rick DeNatale (denatale@nando.net) wrote:
:. 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 3270 of the '90s is a very good idea.

Let a real expert else take care of most of the hard stuff.

There is one utterly fundamental difference between the new and the old, 
though.  You used to be connected to one mainframe.  You were at the
service of the mainframe. 

Now you choose your connections to whatever you want.  The mainframes
are in service of you. 

This reverses the sociology of the system which was the most important
flaw of the old mainframe model: the user had little control. 

: -- 
: Rick DeNatale

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From: mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu (Matt Kennel)
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Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
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Date: 11 Apr 1996 18:26:48 GMT
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