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- From: williams@solar.sky.net (Eric Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 17:59:50 -0600
- Organization: SkyNET Online
- Message-ID: <4ivetm$334@solar.sky.net>
- References: <3134D499.653E@ix.netcom.com> <313613B2.136E@ksopk.sprint.com> <4i7qhl$ik6@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> <4iuhi7$fmf@sundog.tiac.net>
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- In article <4iuhi7$fmf@sundog.tiac.net>,
- >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!
- >
- >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.
- >
- >Go back to comp.lang.smalltalk. You can't stop a moving freight
- >train!
-
-
- You missed my point..... and I didn't even express a desire to
- see things go one way or the other..... I was just saying that
- *at this moment*, Smalltalk is a lot more robust and has more
- tools.
-
- What the future holds is anyone's guess. Hot technologies
- come and go...... but I'll agree that Java hasn't even neared
- its zenith yet.
-
- -eric
-