41.   Before the Web created a common programming language, accessing each database required users to learn a special set of internal rules, which could be quite arcane.

42.   Both Netscape and Sun Microsystems soared, after announcing an Internet programming language that can be used to create sites on the World Wide Web.

43.   A parallel Net existed in the Jewish world, which was longer-lived than any other social system because of its indomitable programming language, the Talmud.

44.   A programming language for software that can run on your computer through the Internet, without loading the program onto the computer hard drive.

45.   A. Java is a full-fledged programming language that can be used to create software applications.

46.   But a programming language?

47.   But analysts predicted that Microsoft would work hard to win the role of intellectual leadership that a dominant programming language confers within the developer community.

48.   But he became serious about it only a few years ago, when he took a course at Amherst in Pascal, a basic programming language.

49.   But most industry analysts doubt that Microsoft would walk away altogether from Java, a popular Internet programming language developed by Sun.

50.   But several executives said that not enough attention had been paid to the importance of programming languages in giving Microsoft a commercial and technical advantage.