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In article <du68r5$7fa$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, ianc says...
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>(Question: What was the "trigger" that made people start
>>adopting Java for projects?)
>>
>>Kevin
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>About 1996 the web and serverside programming took off. The options were:
>- c++ - complicated and not fast enough turn around time for average users.
>- visual basic - big problems with vb runtime on the server and windows only.
>- scripting languages
>- perl - complex for prog in the large
>- php - too simple for prog in the large
>- others - not mature enough
>- delphi - excellent but owned by borland
>- java - originally for applets at which it proved to be fairly useless - found
>a niche on the server by default. The prog model was simple and the package and
>jar features enabled prog in the large.
>
>The things i like a about D are:
>- makes the same trades offs as delphi
>- fast compiled language without pointers being so "in your face". 
>- stucts on the stack, objects on the heap 
>- parameter passing to functions does not require pointers
>- has a standards based scripting language - DMDScript/ECMAScript - which is
>written in D.
>- generic/templates 
>Pity it was not available a few years ago.
>

/me hands Ianc a cigar :)

- EricAnderton at yahoo