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- From: Pierre Ferland <pierre@meca.polymtl.ca>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 14:40:09 -0500
- Organization: Center for Applied Research on Polymers
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- I'm just listening to you guys (or reading at). I'd say
- that more than 60% of the debugging time we spend when
- using C++ resides in the dark spots of this damn language,
- as you mentioned:
- - slack pointers,
- - garbage collecting,
- - run-time type checking.
- - Even Stroustrup is careful when explaining the use of
- exception handling!
- - What else ? Oh! references, I was as about to forget them.
- - Templates (they never managed to have that made clean).
-
- It now seems that computer technology grows faster than
- applications (if MS products are not considered!).
-
- If Java can provide us an efficient programming support,
- I'd accept a reasonable performance lack for a while,
- and gain in stability and ease of use.
-
- But it doesn't seem that Java kits will be free. They
- already started to sell'em. And I don't think Java
- will make it against C and C++ if they adopt that
- policy...
-
- Pierre
-