Hey, take it easy! Nobody's rubbing anything in, people just posted brief overviews of some languages.
> my dad-in-law the other day and he immediately tells me "don't bother > with Java, it has no future". His opinion, I wouldn't care about that too much. I believe Java is very popular in enterprise-class web applications. There could be worse, it could be Microsoft rather than Sun proprietary. The M$ stuff works on Losedose only (VB, C#), java works everywhere. I also don't think Delphi is that bad. It's very common for graphical apps and rapid prototyping. Borland even gives you the home version for free, if you develop GPL apps with it (or something like that). 15 years ago the Borland IDEs were of excellent value and quality (haven't used them since). It comes with a decent IDE, something which can't be said for Linux/opensource. (Calling emacs a decent IDE is a laugh at best. Won't get any M$ converts with that one.) If you haven't got a choice in languages for your course, don't be too worried. Most programming skills can be transferred to any language, and C is diabolically disorganised and the root cause of many security bugs (whatever idiot put strcpy into the C library - sheesh). Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
