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- From: vlad@gramercy.ios.com (Vlastimil Adamovsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Will JAVA kill C++?
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 15:28:15 GMT
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- Richard Bowen <bowen.richard.rw@bhp.com.au> wrote:
- >C++ is dying, and once decent Java tools and libraries come out C++ will be
- >dead.
- If C++ is dying, why so many projects are being started in C++ and
- succesfully finished? Visual Basic is easier to use and much more fun
- to work with that with C++, but still it didn't kill C++.
-
- > The Java language can do pretty much anything C++ can do.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- It is not enough.
-
-
- >Java will
- >run just as fast as C++. Java code will be more reliable and robust than
- >C++ due to garbage collection and a stripped down vocabulary. And like
- >you said, it is a platform independant open standard API so that you can be
- >confident that any program that you write can run on any PC/Workstation or
- >in the future PDA/watch/toaster whatever.
- If the platform independence is important to you, then I agree.
-
- I have a suggestion to hardware companies. DON'T sell different kind
- of computers! Anyway everybody wants to use JAVA that will not use the
- all excellent features in your hardware. Sell one PC platform, that
- will wishfully never improved, don't add any extra features in future
- and then anybody will keep happy. You see NOBODY wants to have
- platform dependent features.
-
- It is quit funny. Assume somebody has a computer that can do
- multiplication and addition. Another guy have a computer that can do
- addition and division. Third guy will decide to develop a platform
- independent program (of course in JAVA, because it must run on
- Internet). The result will be that the program will run only addition
- and the rest must be faked using the addition function.
- I think that for heavy metal programming you will need "platform
- dependent" languages in order to squeeze all the possible from the
- machine. JAVA will be only a "glue" between those machines.
-
-
-
- Companies can develop code with
- >confidence that it will not be worthless when the next operating system
- >comes into vogue.
-
- >Java is not some trendy new smalltime language. It is major step for the
- >software industry, and it will revolutionise it.
-
- >Java will kill C++.
-
- >Richard
- >bowen.richard.rw@bhp.com.au
-
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