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Introduction to Java - Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alfonse Thinh Vu)
Tue Nov 14 18:19:00 1995
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 95 12:05:24 EST
From: alfv@xetron2.xetron.com (Alfonse Thinh Vu)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi,
I became interested in Java while surfing the Web and I have no experience/knowledge about this language. I'd like to explore it and I may ask some very silly questions, based on what I know about C/C++, before I start investing time and money in it. My questions are:
(1) Can I use Java to write code where I used to, using C/C++. For example, I would like to use Java to write GUI applications much like using XView/Motif, or even using Java in Windows on PC.
(2) Do we do the same in Java as in C/C++: Get a Java compiler with necessary libraries, write Java code, compile, link to the libraries, then execute the program? Does JDK have all of these?
(3) Does anybody think that Java might be useful outside the Web world? Is it still advisable to use Java if I am not programming for Web?
(4) Is there any report/review about Java, esp comparing it with C/C++? I *heard* that the interpreter is *very* slow. Is it? If portability is not of concern, how about the compiler?
(5) And more questions in the future.
Thanks to all of you who take time to read or/and respond. Please bear with me.
Alphonse Vu alfv@xetron.com
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