17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
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.