Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rajiv Gupta Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: U.S. warns on Java software as security concerns escalate Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:22:07 +1100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 39ANEZhZpPfPAN69vSdZ+Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Unison/2.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:21405 On 2013-01-12 23:48:51 +1100, emf said: Re: Neo COBOL. Browser manufacturers should stop supporting Java. Applets are a dead technology which hardly anybody uses (except for criminals). Java is irrelevant to the vast majority of computer users. Its irrelevance should be cemented by deleting support for it. The sooner universities stop teaching Java the better the world will be.