Re: Will Java kill C++?

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From: Kevin Cline
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 15:25

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In article <4kbfnf$1bu@news1.is.net>,
Mark VanTassel <mvantassel@teambca.com> wrote:
>I don't have any metrics, per se - just an observation that "C" had
>remained "king of the hill" for several decades, refusing to be budged
>by any of DOZENS of "new and improved" languages...

Several decades is a huge overstatement.  COBOL and FORTRAN have
been widely used for several decades.  C has been popular for
commercial development only since desktop UNIX machines became common, 
say about 1983 or so.  
-- 
Kevin Cline

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Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
Date: 12 Apr 1996 15:25:24 GMT
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