PC REPORT
December 25, 1997
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A BETTER CUP O' JAVA
Are you tired of seeing "Java errors" pop-up in your Web browser? Wondering
what Java is, and why it doesn't work in your computer? Java is a popular programming
language used to dress up and automate Web sites.
Programmers like to use Java because, in theory, a Java program written on a Macintosh
should run unchanged on a Windows PC, a Unix workstation, or any other computer.
In practice, however, Java programs often crash, because there are many different
versions floating around the Web. But that's about to change.
This week, the world's most influential standards body -- the International Organization
for Standardization -- voted to allow Sun Microsystems, the company that invented
Java, to submit it's Java technologies for consideration as a worldwide standard.
If Java is approved as a global standard, its possible Java's fundamental incompatibilities
will be all but ironed out. Web surfers will be able to hop from site to site, without
being slowed down by Java system crashes.
Rich Levin, KYW Newsradio.
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