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From: Bill Klein (bill_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-12-12 19:18:09


Greg Colvin wrote:
>I believe that the Java team started out trying to use
>the native controls, and found that they could not get
>consistent cross-platform that way, so they switched
>to low level drawing.

That's all fine and dandy but it's also one of the
reasons why Java programs look so silly running in
Windows and why you won't find very many companies
writing programs in Java for a large audience (well,
one of the reasons...).

-Bill Klein <bill_at_[hidden]>


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