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- From: tsikes@netcom.com (Terry Sikes)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 16:56:01 GMT
- Organization: adnc.com
- Message-ID: <4k673o$37r@taurus.adnc.com>
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- ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) wrote:
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- >In article <4k3cdo$np5@taurus.adnc.com> tsikes@netcom.com (Terry Sikes) writes:
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- >> For an interesting evangelical view, see JavaWorld's interview
- >> with Kim Polese, former head of Java marketing at Sun:
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- >> "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, because it is the best example of what a programming language should
- >> be. It is an exemplary programming language. It has all the right features
- >> in it, and it's very elegantly constructed and architected."
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- >Of course, the head of Java marketing is expected to say things like this,
- >whether or not the facts strictly justify them.
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- Good point, though it does beg the question. Truthfully, the more
- interesting aspect of this article was that it made clear that Sun views
- Java in a much more general-purpose role than simply an "Internet
- programming language".
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- How it stacks up against C++ in the long run will be interesting to see.
-
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