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- From: dbell@shvn.com (Doug Bell)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Advice to Java proponents (was Re: Will Java kill C++?)
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 12:40:42 -0700
- Organization: FTL Games
- Message-ID: <dbell-0804961240420001@wholder2.cts.com>
- References: <315BFB16.B74@isg.de> <4jgv6t$hon@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <4k3cdo$np5@taurus.adnc.com> <DpG1s1.GC9@research.att.com> <4k71f5$ot5@news2.ios.com> <31684F33.2528@ibm.net> <denatale-0804960926250001@grail1213.nando.net>
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- In article <denatale-0804960926250001@grail1213.nando.net>,
- denatale@nando.net (Rick DeNatale) wrote:
-
- > In article <31684F33.2528@ibm.net>, Ernie Wright <javaguy@ibm.net> wrote:
- >
- >> How do you think JAVA will fare when it has 16 years under its belt like
- >> Smalltalk, really.......look how fast this is happening, aren't at least
- >> interested in it since you are in this forum?
- >
- > But Smalltalk has really had more than 24 years under it's belt, and has
- > only really been widely available for less than half of that time. It had
- > a chance to mature and become coherent and mature in a nurturing
- > environment before it had to face the cold cruel world.
-
- Sounds like an "academics vs. commercial" argument to me. I know Java
- doesn't have any applications of note to point to, at least not yet, but
- in the (eight?, ten? how many?) years since Smalltalk has been "widely
- available", what widely available, successful applications have been
- implemented in Smalltalk? This is a reasonable measure of the success and
- usefulness of a language, or at least of its commercial viability.
-
- Doug Bell
- dbell@shvn.com
-