From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 17:59:39 -0800 (PST)
To: hallam@ai.mit.edu (Hallam-Baker)
Subject: Re: Microsoft ammunition (fwd)
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> I have yet to see a single Java applet that has the slightest
> functional utility. I like Java as a language, particularly 
> because it has killed C++ stone dead just as everyone thought 
> it had taken over the world. I don't see that anyone has done

	Really, tell that to the market. There are still a _hell_ of a 
lot of people making a living programing in C++, and a lot of 
companies hiring C++ programmers. 

> I think the future of computing is much more likely to lie in
> returning to simple but powerfull ideas. Presentation types,
> parallel languages and genuine process oriented object systems
> interest me much more.

	The future of Computing is more dazzling chrome to capture the 
slack jawed, glaze eyed masses.