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- From: milod@netcom.com (John DiCamillo)
- Subject: Re: Will JAVA kill C++?
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- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 16:14:11 GMT
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- austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com (Matt Austern) writes:
- >C++'s greatest strength is that it supports both OOP and
- >generic programming (despite C++'s weaknesses, it has better support
- >for generic programming than does any other language I've seen)
-
- Have you seen SML? (Depending on what you mean by "better
- support for...", it seems that a Hindley-Milner type system
- is "better" for generic programming than explicit generics
- are.)
-
- >and that it lets you combine the two techniques.
-
- Agreed here. To use C++ exclusively as an OOPL in all cases
- is to miss the much of the value of C++.
-
- >Matt Austern
- >SGI: MTI Compilers Group
- >austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
- --
- ciao,
- milo
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