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From: jhaungs@world.std.com (Jim Haungs)
Subject: Re: Is Smalltalk a deadend ?
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Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 03:31:57 GMT
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I don't know why people keep searching for and insisting on
the "one true way."  Jeesh, people still program in Fortran.

Here's the logic:  Java is successful because it's a standard.
Soon everyone will want to build Java compilers and libraries.
As soon as they are built, someone will diverge from 
the "standard" to do something "better."
Then Java won't be a standard anymore.  Then what?

Call me a blasphemer, but I think Java and web browsers
will be posthumously regarded as the CB radio of the nineties.

