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In article <i661cuklbc689igifq22srkt101847die8@4ax.com>, rc211v <rc211v@attglobal.net> writes:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:35:28 +0000 (UTC), "Kent Paul Dolan"
> <xanthian@well.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Java is by design OS
>>independent, contributing to breaking the stranglehold of MS-Windows on
>>the market of "things needed to run applications". 
> 
> Java is _by_design_ a marketing product in search of a real problem to
> solve.

Java is _by_design_ a programming language intended to be safer
than C.  Two years ago Sun's Chief Technology Officer spoke at
the RSA Conference and pointed out that the bytecode engine and
web stuff was not the original reason Sun was interested in Java.

The write-once, debug-everywhere approach stems only from that
latter use of Java, having not much to do with native compiled
Java.