Re: Advice to Java proponents (was Re: Will Java kill C++?)

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From: Todd Hoff
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 13:31

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Rick DeNatale wrote:

> Smalltalk also had the benefit of being used for many years before it was
> widely available and therefore not having to 'grow up' in the intense
> arena generated by the frenzy accorded C++ and now to an even larger
> extent Java.

The why did not smalltalk take off? One question i asked
a while ago, is if smalltalk is so easy to use and develop
in then why are the tools so damn expensive? Why are there
expensive runtimes? Why is there no portable standard?
Java is free as air compared to smalltalk. Java is in addition
a good language with near universal support. That's a lot to 
overcome with tepid arguments of productivity gains.

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From: Todd Hoff <tmh@possibility.com>
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Subject: Re: Advice to Java proponents (was Re: Will Java kill C++?)
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 06:31:16 -0700
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