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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: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 14:18:58 -0700
- Organization: FTL Games
- Message-ID: <dbell-1104961418580001@wholder2.cts.com>
- References: <31684F33.2528@ibm.net> <denatale-0804960926250001@grail1213.nando.net> <316D09A4.7A92@possibility.com> <1996Apr11.184145.17550@slc.com>
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- In article <1996Apr11.184145.17550@slc.com>, aland@servio.slc.com (Alan
- Darlington) wrote:
-
- > Todd Hoff <tmh@possibility.com> writes:
- > > Why is there no portable standard?
- >
- > The Smalltalk language is completely portable among all major
- > vendors and platforms. (Alright, there are - or were - a few minor
- > gotchas like declaring local variables inside blocks, but compared
- > to C and C++, this is nothing. Also, the new standards will
- > eventually take care of this.) What really kills portability in
- > Smalltalk is the differences in class libraries, and C++ certainly
- > shares this problem. :-(
-
- Just curious...is there an ANSI standard for Smalltalk? Seems like it's
- been around long enough that there should be.
-
- Doug Bell
- dbell@shvn.com
-