I remember going to a Microsoft conference in 1996. Talked with quite a few C++ developers - everyone aged under 50 or so was super excited about Java. At the t

I remember going to a Microsoft conference in 1996. Talked with quite a few C++ developers - everyone aged under 50 or so was super excited about Java. At the time a program that could do something over the Internet was 20 or 30 lines of Java and a few hundred lines of C++.