RE: Java

["McLagan, Doug" <address@hidden>]

Paul Prescod wrote:

..."Java is so much more convenient and easy to use than C++
that it is a major step forward."

...[Java] popularizes many important concepts that had
not caught on before:

 * garbage collection
 * virtual machines
 * reflection
 * large standard library

Considering how long the programming world was VM-phobic and GC-phobic,
Java did us all a big favour...

- Paul Prescod

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My newbie question is:  if in a few years a language other than Java is the
dominant big-systems language, how will we fill in these blanks:


____ is so much more convenient and easy to use than Java
that it is a major step forward.  It popularizes many important 
concepts that had not caught on before:

 * _____________
 * _____________
 * _____________
 * _____________