Your generally excellent article "Today the Web, Tomorrow the World" should have mentioned that using the Java interpreter, just-in-time compilers, and environment does not require you to use the Java language. In fact, the comment that "it's negligent...to ignore the possibility that...code may live for 10 or 20 years" suggests that today's rapidly evolving Java might not even be the best language for Java applications. An alternative, which uses a well-tested ISO-standard language designed for security and safety, is the Ada-to-Java bytecode compiler offered by Intermetrics (
http://www.appletmagic.com/appletmagic.html
).
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