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Re: Teaching Java, teaching what?

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On 12/8/2013 8:49 AM, Eric Sosman wrote:

>      My own take (uninformed; peg this somewhere between the
> ten- and fifty-percent level) is that Java applets have shown
> themselves to be too dangerous for the lawless Net.  This does

Just to toss in my own two nickels, I don't believe that applets are 
inherently more dangerous than Adobe Flash or JavaScript.  The major 
problems with applets lately was Oracle was slow to addressing security 
issues.  That's really a problem for any internet connected computer or 
program.  Heck Windows OS wasn't exactly known for its security on the 
'net a few years ago.

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Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-12-08 11:49 -0500
  Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-12-08 11:03 -0800
    Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-08 22:26 -0500
      Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-12-09 07:18 +0000

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