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Daniel Feather wrote: . . . > Java is NOT the end-all-be-all of programming languages. . . . Indeed. No one programming language is. Not even PL/I. For that matter, not even Object PL/I (which, as far as I'm concerned, SHOULD have been the basis for Java, rather than C++). All programming languages have their own strengths and their own weaknesses, and if you fail to recognize that essential fact, or if you try to force one language to look like another (I have particularly vile memories of Control Data's lamentable "FTNTS" subsystem that went out of its way to make FORTRAN look like BASIC, which resulted in some of the most unreadable source code I've ever seen), or you fail to recognize and exploit a language's strengths (like all the so-called RPG programmers who've never used "The Cycle"), you're only shooting yourself in the foot. -- James H. H. Lampert Professional Dilettante http://www.hb.quik.com/jamesl http://members.hostedscripts.com/antispam.html http://www.thehungersite.com Help America's Passenger Trains. http://www.saveamtrak.org Read My Lips: No More Atrocities!
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