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  2. From: "David W. Smith" <dsmith@penergy.com>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
  4. Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
  5. Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 10:55:43 -0700
  6. Organization: Penergy, Inc.
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  15. Alan L. Lovejoy writes:
  16.  
  17. > The most important case where Smalltalk can be faster than C is when
  18. > the initial version of the Smalltalk program is done ten times faster
  19. > than the initial C version, and the Smalltalk programmer(s) spend
  20. > the remaining time optimizing the code (by using more sophisticated
  21. > algorithms, perhaps).
  22.  
  23. ... or spend the remaining time building a second version, after
  24. customers have looked at the initial version and have decided that
  25. their initial statement of requirements wasn't quite correct.
  26.  
  27. It seems that "sooner" wins out over "faster" in a growing percentage
  28. of situations these days.
  29.  
  30. Dave
  31.