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Article #114Re: Will Java kill C++?
From: Jan Steinman
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 04:34
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 04:34
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In article <4jr7gf$dc6@nyheter.chalmers.se>, ei39594@ios.chalmers.se says... >BTW, I have using C/C++ the past 5-6 years. NOTHING will replace a >language like this since you can do EVERYTHING in C (e.i. VERY low level My my. And I always thought EVERYTHING included things like climbing a mountain, making love, and doing dedicated global register allocation! Reductio ad absurdium: I can do things in assembler you can't do in C/C++, and I know guys who can do things in silicon that I can't do in assembler, therefore we should all be programming in silicon! NOTHING will replace silicon, since you can do EVERYTHING in silicon! (Aside: it always cracks me up the way people refer to "C/C++" as if you know one, you know them all -- bet they're really writing really good object-oriented code!) : Jan Steinman <mailto:Jan@Bytesmiths.com> : Bytesmiths, the Smalltalk specialists <http://www.bytesmiths.com> : "This is witty signature 1 of 47,288."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.magmacom.com!NewsWatcher!user From: Jan@Bytesmiths.com (Jan Steinman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++? Date: 5 Apr 1996 04:34:02 GMT Organization: Bytesmiths, the Smalltalk start-up specialists Message-ID: <Jan-0404962231550001@206.116.214.1> References: <Dp5J6n.F2K@news.hawaii.edu> <4jno9v$css@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <Dp7DKD.1nt@news.hawaii.edu> <4jr7gf$dc6@nyheter.chalmers.se> <4jrlou$l8a@netope.harvard.edu> Reply-To: Jan@Bytesmiths.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.116.214.1 X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.1.7