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- From: Oliver Plohmann <opl@esec.ch>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Will JAVA kill C++?
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 14:02:44 +0100
- Organization: ESEC SA
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- > Another question: has anyone ever considered implementing the Java
- > builtin classes in C++? I bet it can be done!
-
- I guess you can. However, it looks biased to me if the motivation
- is just to demonstrate that you can do without Java. This leaves out the
- point that C++ and Java from the beginning use different approaches.
-
- C++ is made to be efficient, and save (compile - link) whereas Java is
- made for being flexible and productive while being unsave
- (compile - no link). In my opinion Java is much closer to Smalltalk than
- to C++. For a long time to come no other language will be able to
- compete
- with the richness and remarkable tools Smalltalk offers. Java has a long
- way to go and the C++ people just find out they need to provide class
- browsers and stuff alike.
-
- I think C++ will be left for system programming whereas Java and
- Smalltalk
- will go into a race for the primer oo-language for application
- programming.
- What I would like to figure out is whether the "method-level" strong
- typing
- in Java helps in reducing runtime errors compared to dynamic typing in
- Smalltalk.
-
- /Olli
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