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- From: Jan@Bytesmiths.com (Jan Steinman)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: 5 Apr 1996 04:34:02 GMT
- Organization: Bytesmiths, the Smalltalk start-up specialists
- Message-ID: <Jan-0404962231550001@206.116.214.1>
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- In article <4jr7gf$dc6@nyheter.chalmers.se>, ei39594@ios.chalmers.se says...
- >BTW, I have using C/C++ the past 5-6 years. NOTHING will replace a
- >language like this since you can do EVERYTHING in C (e.i. VERY low level
-
- My my. And I always thought EVERYTHING included things like climbing a
- mountain, making love, and doing dedicated global register allocation!
-
- Reductio ad absurdium: I can do things in assembler you can't do in C/C++,
- and I know guys who can do things in silicon that I can't do in assembler,
- therefore we should all be programming in silicon! NOTHING will replace
- silicon, since you can do EVERYTHING in silicon!
-
- (Aside: it always cracks me up the way people refer to "C/C++" as if you
- know one, you know them all -- bet they're really writing really good
- object-oriented code!)
-
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