From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,517611567e1815f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Keith Thompson Subject: Re: Java momentum slowing ? Date: 1999/05/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 477294727 References: <372b0ec7.28153993@news2.ibm.net> <3728E60E.F789FD8@uq.net.au> <373612A6.3752CC19@Botton.com> <7h5ak3$2t8@drn.newsguy.com> <37365163.1AB89036@Botton.com> <7h5n2d$prl@drn.newsguy.com> <3736D161.48A9E77B@Botton.com> <3737AB6D.FACB718C@Botton.com> <7h8lmu$2p8n@drn.newsguy.com> <3739C39F.E9B46156@Botton.com> <56EF566E81E8663B.12EEA4C03A4F6995.985E539C8D89B2D1@library-proxy.airnews.net> <373A1E6D.8CDB54C9@Botton.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@nusku.cts.com X-Trace: nusku.cts.com 926571940 23087 198.68.168.21 (13 May 1999 05:05:40 GMT) Organization: CTS Network Services NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 May 1999 05:05:40 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-13T05:05:40+00:00 List-Id: David Botton writes: [...] > Java is what java is, a C syntaxified TCL/TK. > > I don't understand why people have a hard time dealing with this. It > doesn't make Java "BAD", it just means that Java is not the language / > OS killer that Sun (and not so long ago M$) would force down your throat > to believe. > > The JVM has some great uses and I have used it for many cool > applications, like providing programmability to the user who can > dynamically add to the application, etc. Do to all the marketing fluff, > the JVM has become one of the best and most portable scripting engines > around. As far as I know, there is no necessary connection between Java the language and the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). They were designed by the same group of people as part of the same project, but Java can be compiled to machine code like any other language, and any other language can be compiled to Java byte codes. (Both uses of the phrase "any other language" are admittedly exaggerations.) -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> Techno-geek. Mouse bigger than phone. Bites heads off virtual chickens.