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  1. Aug 22nd, 2000, 09:36 PM #1
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    Question

    Is there a shortage of java programmers?
    And if so..why? is it because java is hard too learn?
    or is java being taken out?

    One reason whi i ask is because i dont see half as many posts here than i do in vb or c++.
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  2. Aug 23rd, 2000, 01:08 PM #2
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    I doubt it's going out of style, it's just that it is still relatively new. Java is in fact incredibly easy to learn, and easier still if you know C++. Java will definitely be around for a long time, which is why MS are making C# - it's a blatant attempt to make their own version...for .NET, naturally. And it will never be platform independent...
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  3. Aug 23rd, 2000, 03:42 PM #3
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    Kool ..

    Oh yeah it's pretty easy so far for me..but what i am wondering is...why do some colleges require you to take a c++ class before you can take a JAVA class?
    Also since it's faily new..is that why there is hardly any programmers that use it? ok one more Q...If you know c++ good then java will be easy to learn right? and vice versa?
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  4. Aug 24th, 2000, 12:29 PM #4
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    If you know C++, Java is an absolute doddle to learn, which is probably why they want you to have the C++ course first.

    And there are actually a very large and increasing number of Java programmers .
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  6. Aug 25th, 2000, 06:41 AM #5
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    And as to why there aren't so many Java postings here it may well be that this is primarily a VB site.
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  7. Aug 25th, 2000, 08:03 AM #6
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    It would appear that even as a VB site, most of the VB programmers who decide to move to a different language, are facinated by all they hear about C++ and Assembly and so forth, I think the reason being is that C++ been around longer, so it tends to get more praise.
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  8. Aug 25th, 2000, 04:33 PM #7
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    Sun's lawsuit probably helped that, I don't think MS will be a Java licensee anymore, the major downside about that is that new versions of Windows probably will not have a Java Runtime Environment installed by default.
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  9. Aug 25th, 2000, 04:35 PM #8
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    I think they'll keep it in because otherwise noone () would use IE because it wouldn't run Java. Although Sun do make a Java Plugin for Netscape and IE, which runs 1.2 apps properly (ie has support for Swing and the new collections-based classes).
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