Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer

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From: Steve Stringfellow
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 05:55

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jhd@herold.franken.de (Joachim Durchholz) writes:
>Algol 60 hasn't exactly come into widespread use, but C is one of its  
>descendants (like the vast majority of modern programming languages).  
>Eiffel may meet the same fate, being an unsuccesful progenitor of a  
>successful language. But the language to replace Eiffel in the programming  
>community hasn't been specified yet, and I doubt it can be done before  
>more experience with OO has been collected.

What is the chance that Java is the language that replaces C++, Eiffel, and
the whole group of existing OOP languages?

Steve Stringfellow   steves@mcs.com


>-Joachim

>--
>Im speaking for myself here.
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