Re: Will Java kill C++?

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From: RjB
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 17:00

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In article <4iuhi7$fmf@sundog.tiac.net>,
Joe Kinsella <jkinsella@procd.com> wrote:
>
>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!
>

	Aside from the flamebait, I'm just wondering if any
systems have been built in Java of sizes approaching those built in
Smalltalk.  Because, to my mind, it's really when you're
programming-in-the-humungous that development systems prove
themselves.

	-rj
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From: RjB <onomoto@rahul.net>
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Date: 22 Mar 1996 17:00:09 GMT
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