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- From: phinely@Hawaii.Edu (Peter Hinely)
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
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- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 18:35:54 GMT
-
- In article <4k3cdo$np5@taurus.adnc.com>, Terry Sikes <tsikes@netcom.com> wrote:
- >dshaker@samsara.smalltalk.com (Doug Shaker) wrote:
- >
- >For an interesting evangelical view, see JavaWorld's interview
- >with Kim Polese, former head of Java marketing at Sun:
- >
- >http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-1996/jw-04-polese.html
- >
- >To quote in part (used without permission):
- >
- >"I would say just from a standpoint of programming language popularity, I
- >think Java is going to replace C++ and is boing to become the language that
- >university students learn when they sit down and write their first line of
- >code,
-
- That very well may be, but I think computer science departe departments
- are relatively conservative in their choice of teaching languages, and
- take quite a while to adopt a new teaching language. Who knows... by the
- time Java is a mainstream language used in CS courses, there may be other
- newer languages that are the "hot-thing".
-
- >because it is (Java) the best example of what a programming language should
- >be.
-
- Puh-lease!
-
- >It is an exemplary programming language.
-
- Not!
-
- >It has all the right features
- >in it, and it's very elegantly constructed and architected."
- >
-
- What about multiple inheritance? Functions as first class objects?
-