Re: Exponential

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>John,
>
>Not a flame - but it is irresponsible to distort the history of Java on a
>newsgroup whose membership is still largely ignorant of the technology in
>the first place. Labelling it a joke doesn't change the fact that you are
>grossly misrepresenting the facts.>
>
>For those of you who aren't up to date on the Java history, when it was
>created, Java was never intended to be a business language.  In fact,
"Oak"
?was the Java language was originally called, was never the goal in the
first
?place. Java technology was originally intended for consumer electronics
?>devices. Java the language, was created due to some limitations of C++,
?which was the language originally used for the project.
>Regards,
>
>John Taylor
>Canada

John

Ah ya.  Whatever.

So it was designed for consumer electronics. Ya and RPG was "Designed" for
reports.
I believe they have made a couple of revisions to the language since then
right?

My point was a joke.  Designing a class (BigDecimal in the Java.math
package)
to handle decimal results(and rounding functions) instead of just adding a
"Decimal"
data type to the language definition is the long way around I thought.

Since Java was first designed(for imbedded systems) it has been enhanced
and extended many times.
It has been recently touted as a business language.
I just thought they would have enhanced it to handle "Business" needs a
little better.


That's it. It wasn't important anyway,  No follow-ups,

Good night irene

John



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