Re: Advice to Java proponents (was Re: Will Java kill C++?)

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From: Doug Bell
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 21:18

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In article <1996Apr11.184145.17550@slc.com>, aland@servio.slc.com (Alan
Darlington) wrote:

> Todd Hoff <tmh@possibility.com> writes:
> > Why is there no portable standard?
> 
> The Smalltalk language is completely portable among all major
> vendors and platforms. (Alright, there are - or were - a few minor
> gotchas like declaring local variables inside blocks, but compared
> to C and C++, this is nothing.  Also, the new standards will
> eventually take care of this.)  What really kills portability in
> Smalltalk is the differences in class libraries, and C++ certainly
> shares this problem.  :-(

Just curious...is there an ANSI standard for Smalltalk?  Seems like it's
been around long enough that there should be.

Doug Bell
dbell@shvn.com

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From: dbell@shvn.com (Doug Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Advice to Java proponents (was Re: Will Java kill C++?)
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 14:18:58 -0700
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