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- From: miket@metabridge.com (MikeT)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 21:44:30 GMT
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- ckann@seas.gwu.edu (Charles W. Kann) wrote:
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- >
- >You talk alot about Smalltalk, but isn't Smalltalk dynamically typed, and
- >Java statically typed? I think this would be a much bigger difference
- >than anything else you have mentioned. Many people perfer one or the
- >other, but for my money, I would not like to live near a nuclear power
- >plan which uses a dynamic typed language for anything.
-
- I'd rather live near one that used Smalltalk than one using a
- pointer-based language. Or fly on a plane instrumented by such a
- language.
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- The proposition that statically/strongly typed languages are the best
- way to get quality code would be laughable, if it hadn't foisted such
- abominations like C/C++ upon us.
-
- Mike
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