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- From: rdstrac@ycs.ab.ca (Roy D. Strachan)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Java closer to Modula-3 than to C++
- Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 21:11:10 GMT
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- Frederic Devernay <Frederic.Devernay@sophia.inria.fr> wrote:
- >[ stuff deleted ]
- > (I still can't understand
- >where C++ gets its success from...).
-
- Directly from C. A few misguided companies, probably the most
- noticeable being Borland, closed their eyes and jumped feet first onto
- the OOP and C++ bandwagon. Once there they had to defend their
- position (and investment). How did they do that? They fell back on a
- technique that Hitler perfected; "If you tell a big enough lie, often
- enough..." Listen closely, you can still hear it ringing (C++ is
- better, C++ is better). Horse puckey! Every time C has been
- "improved" the compilers have become fatter and slower with the
- uncanny ability to produce executables that are also fatter and
- slower. What a concept; dare I say genius??
-
- C was originally developed for writing system level code that
- previously had to be written in assembler. Unix was mostly written in
- C, so I guess you would have to agree that C met it's design goals. C
- is also easy to learn. Spend fifty bucks or so on the book "The C
- Programming Language". In less than three hundred pages every
- imaginable question about C is answered. Amazing book; amazing OS;
- amazing language. And one more amazing fact: Ken Ritchie figured
- prominently in the design of all three. "So what?", you say.
-
- I'll tell you so what! Mr. Ritchie and his cohorts at Bell Labs are
- about to unleash Inferno, the first real challenger to Java. Think
- about it, when it comes to books, operating systems and languages,
- these guys have "Been there" and "Done that". I believe Inferno could
- easily turn out to be a contender. Of course nothing has been
- delivered so we're just going on pedigree here.
-
- What thinkest thou??
-
-
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