[1177] in java-interest
Re: The future of Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fumihiko \"Miko\" Matsumura)
Fri Aug 25 15:00:19 1995
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:10:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Fumihiko \"Miko\" Matsumura" <miko@well.com>
To: "Glen C. Perkins" <Glen.Perkins@NativeGuide.com>
cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <v01510106ac5e23b8b9c3@[192.0.2.1]>
Hear hear to What Glen has to say! Lets help spread the word. Frankly,
java IS the best language I've ever programmed in, and I too would be
pained to see it dissappear into obscurity.
>
> I'd like to see a lot of effort being made to turn people into Java
> programmers. We were told that there would be free Java classes in Mt. View
> and the schedule would be announced "by the end of the week." That was
> about a month or a month and a half ago. The holdup is that they can't find
> a room available that is large enough for the classes. Please, Sun, take
> advantage of the enthusiasm of the early adopters. MAKE room for the
> classes, train us in Java and send us out to convert the rest of the world.
Agreed. I have a LARGE auditorium in the middle of San Franscisco that
would gladly house such a class.
> If Sun is thinking of Java as a "science project", I'm afraid Microsoft
> will clean their clock with a version of VB that is both vastly inferior to
> Java and vastly better marketed.
Ouch. This is very forseeable and horrifying.
Very well stated call to action. I wonder if there is leadership in SUN
that sees things that way...
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