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- From: mvantassel@teambca.com (Mark VanTassel)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 19:43:38 GMT
- Organization: Barfield, Cauthen and Associates
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- linden@positive.eng.sun.com (Peter van der Linden) wrote:
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- >My personal belief is that C++ has peaked and will now go into a steady
- >decline. But lets see some metrics proposed for measuring this.
- >Everyone's got an opinion ;-)
-
- I don't have any metrics, per se - just an observation that "C" had
- remained "king of the hill" for several decades, refusing to be budged
- by any of DOZENS of "new and improved" languages...
-
- ...until C++ came along. C++ is now "king of the hill", and I have to
- point out that it's statistically unlikely that language "X" (X=Java,
- in this case) will overthrow it. Oh, I'm sure it'll happen eventually,
- but the odds are that C++ will survive nearly anything thrown at it
- (as if languages were contestants in a game called "global
- domination"!!!)
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- - /\/\ark \/anTassel (mvantassel@teambca.com)
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