Re: Will Java kill C++?

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From: Bruce Simpson
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 21:36

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vlad@gramercy.ios.com (Vlastimil Adamovsky) wrote:

>Now we have ONE JAVA. But how long? I am sure there will be minor and
>major improvements done by different companies, which can lead to
>different versions of JAVA.

Nope.  Sun are keeping very tight reigns on the language specification and
if you change it without their endorsement it's no longer Java(TM).

Besides which... it doesn't matter too much whether the language
specification changes so long as the VM bytecode design doesn't.

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