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- From: steve@hn.ocbbs.gen.nz (Steve Detoni)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Will JAVA kill C++?
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 01:12:45 +1200
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- Vlastimil Adamovsky (vlad@gramercy.ios.com) wrote:
- : Richard Bowen <bowen.richard.rw@bhp.com.au> wrote:
- : 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.
- I agree with what your saying, and like to add this comment.
-
- People seem to to think that C(++) languages don't support differen't
- platforms, this is simple not true. C provides a set of standard library
- functions that can be used on any system supporting an ANSI C compiler.
- The fact that libraries limit program to non-graphical tasks doesn't mean
- the program is any less portable. If you going to write for a particular
- environment, of course you are going to have to change code (i.e. GUI's),
- but
- then again I have yet to see a fully compatible system that provides the
- same full features to all systems.
-
- : >Java will kill C++.
- Yeah right, and Visual BASIC is fast and powerful ..... when combined
- with VBX modules written in C.
-
- C(++) has it followings, its the languages that people use to write OS's,
- its the language used to access hardware directly, can you say the same for
- Java. Sure Java has its features, but so has C(++). Your reasoning that
- since JAVA makes OOP easier, then C(++) will die! If this was true then
- COBOL should have died in the 60's .... unfortunitly it hasn't, and poor
- students still have to torture through it.
-
- Again, C(++) was greated to be prowerful, it wasn't meant to be forgiving,
- life simply isn't like that. If you feel that this is a problem then keep to
- uncomplex things...... like BASIC (even though todays BASIC look to much
- like PASCAL without the style).
-
- If it wasn't for C you would have Unix (an execllent system and no one
- say different), and without Unix you probably
- wouldn't have the internet. We would probably be torturing through some
- hyper slow Microsoft Windows interface to the internet written in BASIC
- if Bill Gates had his way.
-
- steve.
-