Re: Will Java kill C++?

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From: Mark VanTassel
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 21:54

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jet@eskimo.com (James Thiele) wrote:

>*several decades*?  Not really.  C was invented around 1970.  It only
>existed on UNIX and a few IBM and Honeywell systems in 1975 (look at the
>Bell System Technical Journal special edition on UNIX if you don't
>believe me).

>C was not "king of the hill" anywhere except on UNIX before the
>80s.  In my dictionary "several" is more than one and a half.

>IMHO your observation of history is wrong.

OK, so I like to exaggerate (no, wait - I LOVE to exaggerate ;-)

Change "several decades" to "a decade and a half or so" and the
argument still stands. In this industry, 15 years is a lifetime.


- /\/\ark \/anTassel (mvantassel@teambca.com)

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