Re: Will Java kill C++?

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From: Joe Kinsella
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 15:38

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>Eric Williams (Eric.R.Williams@ksopk.sprint.com) wrote:

>: 5. What about Smalltalk?

>: Everything I've mentioned so far (with the exception of *real*
>: threading)
>: can also be said of Smalltalk.

>: In fact, Smalltalk is *way* ahead of Java w.r.t. many issues:  JIT
>: compilation, advanced graphical framework, development environments,
>: toolkit availability, database connectivity, stability, market share,
>: etc..

It seems a lot of Smalltalk programmers are driving themselves mad
over Java.  You can go on and on about how Smalltalk could just as
easily have been Java.  But it is not Java!  At best Smalltalk will be
just another insiginificant language of the future.

Java is here to stay and is moving forward at a pace the Smalltalk
market can't even comprehend.  So quit whining about how Smalltalk can
do all the things Java can do.  No one cares about Smalltalk!

Sun positioned Java in a market that is hot and only getting hotter.
And then they backed it up with marketing and an appealing
sales/distribution model.

Go back to comp.lang.smalltalk.  You can't stop a moving freight
train!

Joe

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 15:38:21 GMT
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