Hi Elliot, Just my 5 cents.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On the other hand JAVA is a system programming as also a general > programming language. > Java is not a system programming language and will never be. With it's kind of execution model and performance... And no need for examples here, please, I can write any given system on Fortran IV, that does not make it a system programming language. Nor Java is general programming language, mostly because of it's idiomatics, garbage collection and castrated pointers. Though it's much better suited for application programming, than to system programming, still, doing any serious system on it, one will eventually face a need to buy SUN multiprocessor server to achieve any acceptable performance. That alone makes Java more a catch, than programming language and there's no surprise why SUN spent countless millions pushing Java into market. > > M$ launched their own version of Javascript called JScript (with added > features to be functional with their propietary COM model) > For clarification. M$ made it not because of added features, but to make IE competition incompatible with websites developed using it, thus pushing NScape, Opera and others out of market simply by encouraging web developers to use it. > > JScript is slightly different than JavaScript (founded in Navigator) so > conflicts can arise the same way as VBScript does with IE. Sure thing, that was the original intent. Mostly agree with the rest. Vit.
