Hello all,
Yesterday morning, I had breakfast on foreign soil. The guy sitting at the next
table and I got talking. I was at an internet security conference and he was on
holiday from his job at Sun (in California) teaching employees how to use Java.
He said two things which to me were fundamental.
1. Java is a security nightmare - it's full of holes.
2. Java is a method waiting for an application.
Now, I'm not a programmer and I haven't looked at Java because of that. On the
basis of my conversation I will continue not to look at Java until I start
hearing really wonderful things from people with long experience using it.
I post this so that others can act/not act if they wish, and it is not meant to
start a 'Java is great/Java is *!?%$*' slanging match a la 'PC/Mac' debates.
George Pitcher
Technical Manager
SCOPE Project Technical Unit
Napier University, Edinburgh
Tel: (44) 131-455 6179
www.scope.napier.ac.uk/
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"I thought Multimedia was reading the newspaper with the TV switched on."
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