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Article #1118Re: Language "ranking" of Colin James III based on posts
From: Thuyen Nguyen
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 16:39
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 16:39
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jeffn@meaddata.com (Jeff Nelson) wrote: > Jokes aside, I've been examining various languages for the planned > reimplementation of a large project. smalltalk and lisp seems > to be far ahead of the pack due to the existance of extrordinarily > powerful commercial development environments, checkout IBM's VisualAge > for smalltalk and the Franz, Inc. CLOS products. > > Let me anticipate a few responses by saying that VB and VC++ are good > for prototyping, but in my experience, they are poor at growing large > projects once the dialogue boxes are layed out. From what I've seen > in such multifaceted large projects as the infamous emacs, this is > not the case for Lisp and similar languages which are truer to the > OO paradigm. Let's not start a language debate here. It's silly. VB & VC++ are good for all different kind of size. Your experience in these languages are probably limited. The only facts are that they are definitely faster than those smalltalk based tools from IBM, Parcplace, Parts etc, and the controls are also much better. Thuyen Nguyen.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news3.digex.net!usenet From: Thuyen Nguyen <thuyen@pipeline.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,comp.databases,comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: Language "ranking" of Colin James III based on posts Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 11:39:45 -0500 Organization: MFT Message-ID: <30D98DD1.496A@pipeline.com> References: <4a7q68$aoc@mercury.galstar.com> <4adoru$7et@kryten.awinc.com> <4b9br4$a4h@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> <30d974d4.175924245@fountain.mindlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: nyc06228.slip.digex.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b2 (Windows; I; 32bit)