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- From: RjB <onomoto@rahul.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 17:00:09 GMT
- Organization: Object removeFromSystem
- Message-ID: <4iumap$mn5@hustle.rahul.net>
- References: <3134D499.653E@ix.netcom.com> <313613B2.136E@ksopk.sprint.com> <4i7qhl$ik6@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> <4iuhi7$fmf@sundog.tiac.net>
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- In article <4iuhi7$fmf@sundog.tiac.net>,
- Joe Kinsella <jkinsella@procd.com> wrote:
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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!
- >
-
- Aside from the flamebait, I'm just wondering if any
- systems have been built in Java of sizes approaching those built in
- Smalltalk. Because, to my mind, it's really when you're
- programming-in-the-humungous that development systems prove
- themselves.
-
- -rj
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