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[David Aikema]

What is it with people posting stuff simply because it says something
negative about MS?

IMO, this is more a sales pitch from Sun for Java over C/C++ than anything.

David

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:01:25 -0500, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> 'James Gosling, CTO of Sun's Developer Products group and the father of the
> Java programming language, has called Microsoft's decision to support C and
> C++ in the common language runtime in .Net one of the "biggest and most
> offensive mistakes that they could have made" in his speech to developers at
> an event in Sydney earlier this week. He further commented that by including
> the two languages into Microsoft's software development platform, the company
> "has left open a security hole large enough to drive many, many large trucks
> through."'
> 
> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-5563796.html?tag=adnews&tag=nl.e501-1