yuganthi jayasinghe wrote:
fred rosenberger wrote:Could you re-phrase your question?
wht is the purpose of learning java
why is it important
Quite apart from the importance of learning
anything significant, Java represents the first effort to make an OO languange accessible to all but the authors of those who (quire rightly) were "pointing" us in the right direction.
C++ was a "superset" of C, and has always suffered as a result (arguments please), but Java redefined the boundaries of what a programmer "needs to be concerned with". You create objects, you use them, but otherwise the syntax is very C-like (a language very familiar to most of us old farts).
My question is: do you have a better alternative? Languages tend to evolve from other ones, because the syntax is understood.
Winston