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- From: aet@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Bert THOMPSON)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 09:20:56 GMT
- Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne
- Message-ID: <4kiito$498@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- Chris Marston <cmarston@ls.barrhead.ab.ca> writes:
-
- |Erik P. DeBenedictis wrote:
- |>
- |> Andrew Koenig wrote:
- |>
- |> I believe there are better comparisons than C/C++ and Java. There is precedent
- |> for applying marketing to computer languges, however. Prolog (or the Japanese
- |> 5th generation computing initiative) and PL/1 got very expensive marketing campaigns
- |> as well. These were all bombs.
- |>
- |> Is it possible that Java will become the Prolog or PL/1 of the 90's?
-
- |When was the last time you saw ProLog featured in Time magasine? ;^) I
- |think it already has too much inertia & dev community support behind
- |it to meet that kind of grisly end. Besides, Java is actually
- |_useful_....
-
- When are people going to stop making these facile historical comparisons
- with other languages (Prolog, PL/1, etc) in order to predict what's going
- to happen to Java. Judge Java on its own technical merits.
-
- How does Java differ from Prolog, PL/1, [insert historically analogous
- language]?
- - It's got a very small learning curve for a huge pool of programmers
- (true of Prolog or PL/1?).
- - It solves real software engineering problems with current dominant
- languages (C, C++).
- - It already has a critical mass of support. (Compare the number of postings
- on comp.lang.{c,c++,java}. How big is comp.lang.prolog?)
- - Bean-counters like the productivity gains over C++ (and rightly so).
-
- Bert
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