This is a second opinion, also published with the article I mentioned earlier. I wonder how this editor would react if he knew about Ada? Rick -- Richard Conn mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.monmouth.com/~conn/ Opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of anyone else. ======================================================================= Java has to happen--the world needs a universal programming language, a lingua franca of application programming. Visual Basic is never going to catch on as a universal programming language, and C isn't suited to the Web. Just as HTML is supported on every Web client everywhere, Java programs (at least basic ones) will eventually run on any computer, anywhere. Sure, Java will probably never be used to create platform-independent programs that are at once rich and deep, or cross-platform programs with all the features of Microsoft Office and the real-time blitz of, say, Quake. But a programming language that every computer supports has been the dream of application developers as long as there have been application developers. Java will succeed in its mission of "write once, run anywhere" for that reason alone: because the people who write programs will insist on it. --Rafe Needleman, editor of CNET