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- From: Larry Baker <leb@sdt.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Will JAVA kill C++?
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 11:08:48 -0800
- Organization: SABRE Decision Technologies
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- Adam Megacz wrote:
- > I'm looking for logical
- > predictions of which language will have greater market
- > share a few years from now, and what tasks each is best
- > suited to.
-
- I suggest focusing on which markets you're interested in.
-
- If your talking about the Internet-browser-based-app market,
- then I'll wager that Java is going to be a dominant force for
- a long time to come - it has the same markings as a de facto
- industry standard as did C, and, in the early days, C++.
-
- If you're talking about the general-purpose programming
- world, then the answer is (to me) weighted in favor
- of C++.
-
- If you're talking about the Win-api based programming environment,
- then I think it's up for grabs. Right now C, C++ and FORTRAN
- are the only commonly-available language platforms having
- multiple vendors that even remotely adhere to a standard
- language definition.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Larry Baker
- leb@sdt.com
-