21 Sep
1998
21 Sep
'98
2:30 a.m.
May a standards group visit both your houses! (Ancient
Swiss curse.)
Java is the closest thing we've got today to an architecture-neutral
executable environment. The Java machine is very well documented, and the
environment has goodies like a GUI and networking defined as well.
Neither BASIC nor C nor anything else today has those things going for it.
C is well established, Java is not. People keep worrying about what the
different companies will do to extend or change Java. When Java gets to be
a truely standard, then I might say OK.
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net