What are the differences between CH and Java?
Siliwood (Silicon Valley plus Hollywoord) companies are making fools of themselves by straddling two bandwagons. For example, Sun’s Java is probably the worst computer language since C, yet the industry is falling all over itself hoping Java will save next Christmas from the Grinch. Only Microsoft’s dogged determination to make Visual Basic the language of the mass makes dollars and sense. But reality checks are not Siliwood’s strong point. — Ted Lewis, Immediate Past Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Computer Binary Critic, IEEE Computer, Vol. 29, No. 2, Feb 1996, pp.8-10. Comparing CH with Java is like comparing orange with apple. These two language environments are quite different in many ways. However, the following notes highlight the similarities and differences between CH applets and Java applets for World-Wide Distributed Computing.
