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Foil 37 Why is Java a Good Language I

From General NPAC Foils-98A starting January 98 (PowerPoint) General Research -- January 98 -->. by Geoffrey C. Fox


It is excellent built in Graphics and Multimedia so you can use it to write applets tat make your Web Pages better .....
It is similar to well known older languages like C and C++ so you can learn these later.
It has wonderful and growing libraries (existing software you can re-use) that allow you to use databases, "object brokers" and all the resources you could want
It has lots of good books and a growing number of fancy environments to help you program
It supports the web and networking (linking of computers)
There are more formal reasons on the next foil



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