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- From: goochb@rwi.com (William D. Gooch)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 08:34:35
- Organization: RothWell International
- Message-ID: <goochb.327.000893D1@rwi.com>
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- In article <dbell-1104960125190001@wholder2.cts.com> dbell@shvn.com (Doug Bell) writes:
- >....
- > If those other languages had all the answers,
- > then we'd know because they'd be behind the great and successful
- >products, which they rarely ever are.
-
- Nonsense. AutoCAD and Interleaf are both Lisp-based products.
- The now-familiar windowing paradigm of PCs and Macs originated
- in the Lisp/Smalltalk world long before Apple or Microsoft co-opted it.
- American Express uses a Lisp system for automatic card purchase
- authorization (ever notice how much more reliable theirs is than most
- other such systems?). The list goes on, and my personal knowledge
- of it is certainly limited to a very small subset. A large percentage of
- the ones I do know of are proprietary and confidential, because their
- use gives the company who built them such a significant competetive
- advantage.
-
- Certainly we don't see a great number of end-user PC applications
- built in the relatively less popular languages. Mainly they're found
- in a commercial-use environment, where the advantages of Smalltalk
- or Lisp/CLOS in dealing with complex problems can be very significant.
-
- BTW, I'm not claiming that any language has "all the answers," and
- I don't think anyone else made that claim either.
-
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- William D. Gooch
- RothWell International
- goochb@rwi.com
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