On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Amish Mehta wrote:
Also assuming that in future we all will be using Linux :-),
Everybody using linux would be a Bad Thing. Just as bad as everybody using Windows. We need to have an even spread of users across systems. Different platforms have different pros and cons. No single platform can satisfy everyone's computing needs.
do we then need platform independent language?
so, yes. C/C++ are platform independent languages. Java is not.
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