[3721] in java-interest
Re[2]: RFC "Off the Web Java"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Horlock Neil)
Thu Nov 23 06:02:11 1995
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 09:13:06 +0000
From: Horlock.Neil.@.ext06lon@ft.com (Horlock Neil)
To: tahmed <tahmed@on.bell.ca>
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
The template issue is one which has interested me recently. I am investigating
Java from a geneeral language point of view with no fixed intention towards
internet development but more towards extensible platform independent
distributed applications. While I am no expert in OO languages the template
mechanism in (recent) c++ seems anideal mechanism for general purpose
collection classes and so forth. However templates are as far as I'm aware only
a c++ feature, how do other OO languages deal with this issue esp. smalltalk
and of course Java.
As for the platform issue, I guess that it will be up to various vendors, IBM,
HP etc. to arrange ports but they will I guess wait for customer pressure. Sun
are unlikely to be proting to all such platforms in the near future as I would
imagine they have their hands full with what they have now.
If the Linux project is implemented as efficiently as other porting projects
have been
the resultant distribution should slip quite easily into any Unix, especially
as the Lack of built in threads will require them to provide a threads library
of one form or another, thus alleviating any problems HP etc. might have in
that area.
Neil Horlock
Financial Times Information
horlock.neil@ft.com
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