Janis Kracht,
  In a message on 3 November, to Pat Donovan, wrote :

JK> > .I'd like to know how many of my tricks i can saftly transferr to other
JK> > without a lot of experimentation.
JK> 
JK> If you're comfortable in C, you'll enjoy java.

A very big generalisation. I like C and Java is very unappealing. 
Java doesn't permit any of the machine specific code that C allows. 

Personally I like having the ability to use the *NERP style of 
programming.


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