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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: An interesting quote on Java and C++
Date: 1997/09/12
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Date: 1997-09-12T00:00:00+00:00
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>In article <dewar.873953246@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>
>> iRobert Duff said
>> 
>> <<>Surely you're not saying that Ada (as is) meets the goals of Java>>
>> 
>> Certainly not, the goal of Java is to make money for Sun

Granted.

I must say, though, that any damage to the theoretical portability of
the Java standard, caused by implementations of Java disobeying that
standard (by accident or on purpose), seems to damage Sun's ultimate
goal, here.  Sun's competitor(s) of course have every incentive to
produce so-called Java implementations that have nice little extensions
and other "minor" differences.

>>... (it's not really
>> meeting its goal very well yet :-)

- Bob