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- From: jkinsella@procd.com (Joe Kinsella)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 15:38:21 GMT
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- >Eric Williams (Eric.R.Williams@ksopk.sprint.com) wrote:
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- >: 5. What about Smalltalk?
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- >: Everything I've mentioned so far (with the exception of *real*
- >: threading)
- >: can also be said of Smalltalk.
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- >: In fact, Smalltalk is *way* ahead of Java w.r.t. many issues: JIT
- >: compilation, advanced graphical framework, development environments,
- >: toolkit availability, database connectivity, stability, market share,
- >: etc..
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- It seems a lot of Smalltalk programmers are driving themselves mad
- over Java. You can go on and on about how Smalltalk could just as
- easily have been Java. But it is not Java! At best Smalltalk will be
- just another insiginificant language of the future.
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- Java is here to stay and is moving forward at a pace the Smalltalk
- market can't even comprehend. So quit whining about how Smalltalk can
- do all the things Java can do. No one cares about Smalltalk!
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- Sun positioned Java in a market that is hot and only getting hotter.
- And then they backed it up with marketing and an appealing
- sales/distribution model.
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- Go back to comp.lang.smalltalk. You can't stop a moving freight
- train!
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- Joe
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