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Re:Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995) by jaggederest on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @06:47AM (#36784372)
I don't know, Java is such a new untested language, I'm not sure anyone will choose it for CGI programming over C, or maybe something like Perl.

[outside of kayfabe, Java was really first released in May 1995, only a few months before this press release, and was mostly used for applets and desktop applications (building a web browser!) - server side usage came a while later]

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Re:Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995) by Sharlin on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @07:13AM (#36784573)
I've taken a look at Java and its standard lib and it's really bad at the kind of text processing that 99% of CGI programming is. Hell, it doesn't even have regexps! To be fair, C is even worse, but that's why we have Perl.
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