Here's an amusing giggle:

http://www.metacard.com/java.html

"Java also supports multithreading, a powerful but extremely rarely 
essential and exceedingly difficult to use programming paradigm. Given a 
sufficiently advanced time-based event scheduler, such as those 
available in MetaCard and Macromedia Director, no application developer 
should even be tempted to try to manage a multi-threaded application."

I wonder when *this* was written, eh? ;-)

"But as it becomes more common for special purpose applications (like 
spreadsheets and word processors) to have Internet connectivity built 
in, the ability to enhance general-purpose WWW browsers with these 
capabilities will become less and less important."

Oh how wrong you are... [Sadly]

"CORBA and ActiveX also will make serious inroads into the areas that 
are Java's forte."

Um...

"By delaying acceptance of CORBA and OpenDoc, Java is probably also 
going to set back the development of the Internet tools we all really 
need by many years."

...oh, OK. They did see that one coming after all.



PS. Oh, it says at the bottom. 1996. Yeah, fast-forward 14 years and see 
how "extremely rarely essential" it is to do multi-threading. ;-)

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