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- From: milod@netcom.com (John DiCamillo)
- Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
- Message-ID: <milodDoMw9L.EGp@netcom.com>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 20:15:21 GMT
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- thp@cs.ucr.edu (Tom Payne) writes:
-
- >: >: pete@borland.com (Pete Becker) writes:
- >: >: >There's no reason you can't write a C++ compiler that generates a Java
- >: >: >bytestream.
-
- >More to the point, one can write a compiler (e.g., yet another
- >targeting of g++) that will be about as efficient as Java on the
- >subset of C++ supprted by Java.
-
- Now that I can agree with. But I think the result will basically
- look like Java with templates and header files. It seems like it
- would make more sense to extend Java to support templates than to
- try to chop C++ down to size.
-
- --
- ciao,
- milo
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