Re: Will Java kill C++?

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From: Eric Williams
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 23:59

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In article <4iuhi7$fmf@sundog.tiac.net>,
>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!


You missed my point.....  and I didn't even express a desire to
see things go one way or the other.....  I was just saying that
*at this moment*, Smalltalk is a lot more robust and has more
tools.

What the future holds is anyone's guess.  Hot technologies
come and go...... but I'll agree that Java hasn't even neared
its zenith yet.

-eric

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Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
Date: 22 Mar 1996 17:59:50 -0600
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