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- From: mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu (Matt Kennel)
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- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
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- Date: 9 Apr 1996 20:02:47 GMT
- Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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- Terry Sikes (tsikes@netcom.com) wrote:
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- : I'd agree that Java probably won't "kill" other languages. After all,
- : lots of programming is still done in COBOL and FORTRAN 77. =) However,
- : it will make very significant inroads where other languages are being
- : used now. For an interesting evangelical view, see JavaWorld's interview
- : with Kim Polese, former head of Java marketing at Sun:
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- : http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-1996/jw-04-polese.html
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- : To quote in part (used without permission):
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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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- This is a huge exaggeration. Java is decent and nicer than C++ in
- many ways, but falls very short of being an
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- "exemplary programming language"
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- and being
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- "very elegantly constructed and architected."
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- There are existing empirical examples of other langauges which I find
- quite superior to Java in these respects and yet I wouldn't even call them
- "exemplary".
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- : From other portions of the discussion its apparent that Sun is busily
- : addressing the two areas where Java needs the most work, i.e. performance
- : and the overly restrictive security model.
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- These are JVM issues. What about real Java langauge issues?
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- : Have a good day!
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