[5351] in java-interest
Re: Microsoft's Java-Killer! (VBScript)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Paluka)
Tue Feb 6 12:11:13 1996
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 10:40:15 -0500
To: Bill Dietrich <bdietrich@voysys.com>
From: Mike Paluka <mikep@exmachina.com>
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
At 05:52 PM 2/5/96 PST, you wrote:
>
>Actually, if VBScript is delivered and works, I think
>it may be a serious threat to Java.
>
>I've been lurking on the Java list for a while, and
>as a professional programmer I can tell you I'm not
>very excited about yet another complex object-oriented
>language (and library).
Are you saying that an amalgam of the following is
not complex:
Windows API, OLE/OCX, C, Visual Basic/VBA/VBScript?
Everybody seems to forget that Java is BOTH a language AND
an environment. When you call Java complex, you must
compare it to the complexity of learning C++ and the
Windows API simultaneously (or C++/Unix/X-Windows).
However, Java is simpler to learn than C++ because it
doesn't have the Jekyll-and-Hyde dicotomy of being
simultaneously both C and C++.
Secondly, the Java standard class library is MUCH
easier to learn than the Windows API (remember
"MakeProcInstance()" and the like? Have you looked
at RPC under Win32? YECCCHHHH!).
Since you are clearly a pragmatic person, you
should appreciate the value of learning Java in that
you won't have to learn fifty APIs when your applications
are ported to other host platforms.
Also, you won't have to worry about whether the target
platform has a decent compiler, since Java is binary-
portable; you can develp Java apps using your favorite
platform/environment/compiler.
From: Michael J. Paluka
At: mikep@exmachina.com
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