On Fri, 5 May 2000, Brian C. Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, 5 May 2000, Faustus von Goethe wrote:
>
> > ALSO, based on the statistics the Java community really is a shrinking one -
> > though vocal. Without the *write once-run many" concept (one that is
> > essentially dead) java is just another programming language - one with
> > strengths and weaknesses like any other.
> >
> I haven't heard about the community shrinking, but your comments
> about its status as a language are correct. And they are applicable to
> all other languages as well. I will tell you, though, that at my
> university, we've recently switched from using mainly C/C++ in our courses
> to using mainly Java. So at least here we will be producing lots of CS
> grads with Java knowledge and experience.
Yeah, school used to use Pascal.
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