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- From: delft@delftware.nl (Andre van Delft)
- Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 05:59:39 GMT
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- Alexander Anderson <sandy@almide.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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- > A long time ago people would resort to binary machine code for the
- >lowest level work, and do the rest in assembler.
- > Then people started to use high-level languages like fortran and
- >have to resort to assembler for critical parts of an operating system.
- > I am in no doubt that C++ will shortly take the place of
- >"assembler".
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- I doubt that. C is the new assembler. C++ will shortly die.
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