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From: gperkins@netcom.com (Glen C. Perkins)
Subject: Re: Java as a programming language
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"John E. Bell" <johnbell@pilot.msu.edu> writes:


>benjamin@ai.mit.edu (Benjamin Renaud) wrote:
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>>One of the recurrent theme on this mailing list is that Java is a
>>language for applets and the Web only.  This is simply not the case.
>>Java has a demo application (HotJava) written entirely in Java, which
>>is robust, useful and widely used.

>I have been very intrigued about Java as a general purpose language,
>but the hype has all be about Web-only stuff. Where can I learn
>more about Java as a general purpose programming tool?

>Thanks - John

comp.lang.java  and  http://java.sun.com

Java is going to be a wonderful standalone language, but it needs
a niche it can dominate to get off the ground, so all effort is
initially focused on the web. When the explosive growth of the web
carries it to glory (as CGI has caused an explosion in interest
in Perl) it will be able to overflow into other, more general,
areas of programming. The design of the language itself has
always been general OO programming, not web specific.

By concentrating on marketing as well as technology, Java may
be spared the fate of excellent languages such as Dylan, and
we may yet be spared the fate of spending our careers doing C++.

__Glen__
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