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- From: bm@renoir.cs.columbia.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Java closer to Modula-3 than to C++
- Date: 01 Mar 1996 16:48:29 -0500
- Organization: Columbia University
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- In-reply-to: spencer@ERA.COM's message of Fri, 1 Mar 1996 16:14:56 GMT
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- >>>>> On Fri, 1 Mar 1996 16:14:56 GMT, spencer@ERA.COM (Spencer
- >>>>> Allain) said:
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- Spencer> Uhh... good answers, but Blair wasn't stating those things as his
- Spencer> opinions; he was just reiterating what other people use as their
- Spencer> "convincing" arguments as to why not to switch to Modula-3.
-
- Yikes! Thanks Spencer. Sheesh, getting mistaken for defending C++ in
- public, how upsetting! Like I want to have to memorize "Yet Even More
- Effective C++, Vol 9"(*) or "More Totally Obscure Ways To Castrate
- Yourself with an Editor."
-
- Blair
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- (*) All fun aside, those two books to which I alude of are great if
- you must use C++!
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- Blair MacIntyre (bm@cs.columbia.edu), Graduate Student (Graphics and UI Lab)
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