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- From: steves@MCS.COM (Steve Stringfellow)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.object,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 23:55:13 -0600
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- jhd@herold.franken.de (Joachim Durchholz) writes:
- >Algol 60 hasn't exactly come into widespread use, but C is one of its
- >descendants (like the vast majority of modern programming languages).
- >Eiffel may meet the same fate, being an unsuccesful progenitor of a
- >successful language. But the language to replace Eiffel in the programming
- >community hasn't been specified yet, and I doubt it can be done before
- >more experience with OO has been collected.
-
- What is the chance that Java is the language that replaces C++, Eiffel, and
- the whole group of existing OOP languages?
-
- Steve Stringfellow steves@mcs.com
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- >-Joachim
-
- >--
- >Im speaking for myself here.
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