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- From: fg5a001@rzaix05.uni-hamburg.de (Oliver Zeigermann)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Will JAVA kill C++?
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 11:02:43 GMT
- Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany
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- Bart Vanhauwaert (jafar@linux.cc.kuleuven.ac.be) wrote:
- : 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. The Java language can do pretty much anything C++ can do. 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. 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++.
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- What do you think Java is programmed in? In Java? Well, it is certainly done in C
- or C++.
-
- Oliver
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