Java is for kiddies

[Paul Prescod]

Ned Jackson Lovely wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> The giggle-inducing irony of the whole Java thing is how Sun's strategy
> backfired. They produced a platform that was supposed to dwell on the
> client side, where it would commoditize those clients. Instead, it turns
> out to be the perfect language to write server applications in, and it has
> successfully commoditized servers. Ooops!

No, the Web did that. If not for Java, people would be writing portable
Web apps in C, Python or Perl or whatever.
-- 
 Paul Prescod