Author: superst (janus.itc.gu.edu.au)
Date: 11-17-2001 20:05
This is an interesting subject that you raise... mainly because recently I've been seeing some developments in the Java world.
As you know Sun has been pushing its java technology for some years now, originally as an embedded language.. and then as a portable web content language. I've dabbled in it every now and then... but I've always ditched it in the end in favour of native ports? Why you ask? because I always found it was quite buggy, significantly slow... and depending on which OS I was using was prone to crashing it.
Seeing the possibilities of course Microsoft wanted to get in on the action and released J++ ... essentially Java for windows although they were never allowed to use the Sun trademark. Its fate has parallelled that of Java however.. reasonably popular .. but no stellar success.
Now I go down the bookshop .. looking for Java books .. and what do I see?... something new called C# and J#... quite a few books in fact... in fact so many that they rival the number of Java books. Doing some reading and it appears that I'm not the only one who's been less than impressed with the virtues of java. Microsoft must of seen its problems .. and has released something very similar to Java.. and has called it C#.. and is using it as part of its .NET strategy. Now I'm not a fan of .NET at all... in fact I think its crap... but C# is great stuff.. its fast and bug free. All the things that pure Java never was.
No here's the grind.. Why the hell didn't Sun fix it? They've had long enough.
So if Java dies.. and C# dominates.. don't whinge that microsoft gunned it down.. just remember how crap java was.. and be thankful that someone got off their ass and fixed it. Even if it was Micro$oft.
Sometimes I wonder if Microsoft really is the computing evil... or whether we've simply been subjected to a series of incompetant and poorly run computer companies.. ie Atari, Commodore, the old Apple, the old Ibm.. etc etc etc etc etc...
Superst
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