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Article #172Re: Will Java kill C++?
From: David W. Smith
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 17:55
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 17:55
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Alan L. Lovejoy writes: > The most important case where Smalltalk can be faster than C is when > the initial version of the Smalltalk program is done ten times faster > than the initial C version, and the Smalltalk programmer(s) spend > the remaining time optimizing the code (by using more sophisticated > algorithms, perhaps). ... or spend the remaining time building a second version, after customers have looked at the initial version and have decided that their initial statement of requirements wasn't quite correct. It seems that "sooner" wins out over "faster" in a growing percentage of situations these days. Dave
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