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- From: jafar@linux.cc.kuleuven.ac.be (Bart Vanhauwaert)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Will JAVA kill C++?
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 00:25:54 GMT
- Organization: PS/2 Linux cluster - URC - KULeuven
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- Richard Bowen (bowen.richard.rw@bhp.com.au) wrote:
- : C++ is dying, and once decent Java tools and libraries come out C++ will be
- : dead. The Java language can do pretty much anything C++ can do. Java will
- : run just as fast as C++. Java code will be more reliable and robust than
- : C++ due to garbage collection and a stripped down vocabulary. And like
- : you said, it is a platform independant open standard API so that you can be
- : confident that any program that you write can run on any PC/Workstation or
- : in the future PDA/watch/toaster whatever. Companies can develop code with
- : confidence that it will not be worthless when the next operating system
- : comes into vogue.
- : Java is not some trendy new smalltime language. It is major step for the
- : software industry, and it will revolutionise it.
- : Java will kill C++.
-
- OTOH, it might be possibel that JAVA will be your next Visual Basic.
- Just a toy for the not-to-technically-well-up-to-the-point amateur
- who wants to rip off ''cool'' applets from someone elses page or
- something. Do not misunderstand me. I am not saying that java is just
- that. I do appreciate the innovations java brought is, and I do know
- java has enough baggage to blow for example Visual Basic and anything
- closely related to hell. BUT I don't see the future that bright.
-
- cu bart
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