Re: Will Java kill C++?

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From: David Wald
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:21

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In article <DAVIS.96Apr18170149@grasse.ilog.com> davis@ilog.com
(Harley Davis) writes:
>In article <BLUME.96Apr18103856@zayin.cs.princeton.edu>
>blume@zayin.cs.princeton.edu (Matthias Blume) writes:

>> It turns out that inheritance with overiding hasn't been successfully
>> modelled yet in any clean semantic framework.  There has been some
>> progress, but usually people stop just short of adding inheritance,
>> because it messes everything up.

>Strange how such an unclean concept can be so useful in practice.  But
>what can you do with people who just keep using a tool no matter how
>many denotational semanticians say it's unfounded?

Well, last I saw there were still researchers trying to straighten out
the semantics of local variables in Algol.  There are many levels of
"clean" in semantics.

-David

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Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
Date: 19 Apr 1996 14:21:15 GMT
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