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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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John Baldwin wrote:
> My personal peeve with C++ is that is a growth on teh side of C (although at
> this point it's larger than C..)  I prefer the way Java lays out code
> (functions defined within the class, etc.).  Unfortunately, the
> implemenetations of Java running around aren't the speediest unless you are
> running !FreeBSD. :-/  Granted, speed isn't needed for all things.

Java has several problems:

1)	It can't do multiple inheritance

2)	You can instance classes without constructing them (the
	JavaMail API has a number of examples of this)

3)	Strong typing is for weak minds

-- Terry

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