Re: Will Java kill C++?

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From: Harley Davis
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:41

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In article <4khd4g$adq@news.express.co.nz> bruce@faxmail.co.nz (Bruce Simpson) writes:

> >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.

Unless, of course, you want to compile your program on several
platforms.

-- Harley Davis
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From: davis@ilog.com (Harley Davis)
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Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
Date: 11 Apr 1996 17:41:03 GMT
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