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Re: The future of Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nelson Yu)
Mon Aug 28 06:53:05 1995
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 00:28:13 -0600
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: nyu@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Nelson Yu)
Robert O'Callhan wrote<roc+@cs.cmu.edu>,
>By the way, if VB is used by "a few unimaginative serfs", why is it the
>hottest selling development tool on the face of the earth, and why is
>everyone trying to clone it? And the line about "backwards-compatible
>shackles" makes me want to laugh hard ... as if the net culture wasn't based
>on Unix ...
Not anymore :-)
Borland's Delphi(a really bad deviant of Pascal) is with approximately
150,000+ copies sold in 4-5 months which is almost a 3rd of the market I
think. Borland will probably dominate the the windows programming tools
market once again, not that I'm exactly thrilled about that, unless VB 4.0
is better, faster and cheaper. See... competition?
I'd liked to see a development system similar to Delphi(or Prograph) for
Java. Every day Java does not have such things(syntax-hilighting editors,
Integrated debuggers, profilers, online-help, etc..) it loses and falls
behind. Of course proving Java works well with databases of all types could
be another selling point.
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