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Re: Will Java kill C++?

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From: David James Hanley
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 23:41
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Andrew Koenig (ark@research.att.com) wrote:

: But such a program (a) would have to be rewritten for every machine
: to which C++ was ported, and (b) would not solve the problem of what
: name to give the linker for overloaded functions with the same name.

	Well, while you're declaring this task impossible, Java JIT
compilers are going to make it possible to share objects compiled on
differrent platforms, with speed approaching that of C++.  

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Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
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Date: 16 Apr 1996 23:41:30 GMT
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