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RE: The Future of Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David J. Cardinal)
Sun Aug 27 19:11:59 1995
From: "David J. Cardinal" <djc@firstfloor.firstfloor.COM>
To: "java-interest@java.sun.com" <java-interest@java.sun.com>,
"'Alexander Anderson'" <sandy@almide.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 12:21:21 -0700
The primary reason VB captured the imagination of many corporate
developers was never the language (which although cute is pretty lame),
but the fact that a complete graphical development environment came
right out of the box, and you could start laying out applications in minutes.
Later on you might realize you needed 10 more widgets and that it would
never be truly awesome code, but time to market and flexibility was king.
Java captures some of this spirit for the professional developer used to C++.
However, if VB is the target, then it's going to take an integrated package
like VB, Delphi, NeXTStep, PowerBuilder or their ilk that supports Java.
IMHO, the key differentiator between corporate or in-house developers and
died in the wool permanent developers (or whatever term you prefer) is that
knowledge of the application space and getting the corporation's job done
are primary for in-house app., while being best of breed and winning awards
and reviews with insanely great stuff is uppermost for groups whose final
output is commercial software for resale.
I'd love to see Java come with a rich and graphical object erector set
environment, and only hope that one is on the way!
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