Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART review of draft-carpenter-renum-needs-work-04

["Vijay K. Gurbani" <[e-mail]>]

Ran Atkinson wrote:
> On 30  Nov 2009, at 12:51 , Vijay K. Gurbani wrote:
>> ...it is not the
>> case that Java is exposing some additional functionality that
>> C/C++ do not. 
> 
> Indeed.  That is precisely our point, although phrased in an
> inverse manner.

I think we are in agreement.  The main issue I wanted to
make sure got across is exactly what I wrote previously:

   ...it is not the case that Java is exposing some additional
   functionality that C/C++ do not.  Java is just packaging
   the functionality in an attractive, easy to use manner.

Any attempts to word-smith this in a manner that does not
give undue advantage to a particular language should be good.

In a certain sense, Java is a language as well as a platform.
Thus, many ideas can be abstracted a bit better that one could
do so in C++.  To take an equivalent example, one could just
as well include these IPv4/IPv6 APIs in the C++ boost library
and attain the same level of abstraction as Java does.

Thanks,

- vijay
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