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  1. Path: camelot.dsccc.com!kcline
  2. From: kcline@sun132.spd.dsccc.com (Kevin Cline)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
  4. Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
  5. Date: 12 Apr 1996 15:25:24 GMT
  6. Organization: DSC Communications Corporation Switch Products Division
  7. Message-ID: <4klsl4$q2g@tpd.dsccc.com>
  8. References: <315BFB16.B74@isg.de> <DpG1s1.GC9@research.att.com> <4k7akk$nsh@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <4kbfnf$1bu@news1.is.net>
  9. NNTP-Posting-Host: sun132.spd.dsccc.com
  10.  
  11. In article <4kbfnf$1bu@news1.is.net>,
  12. Mark VanTassel <mvantassel@teambca.com> wrote:
  13. >I don't have any metrics, per se - just an observation that "C" had
  14. >remained "king of the hill" for several decades, refusing to be budged
  15. >by any of DOZENS of "new and improved" languages...
  16.  
  17. Several decades is a huge overstatement.  COBOL and FORTRAN have
  18. been widely used for several decades.  C has been popular for
  19. commercial development only since desktop UNIX machines became common, 
  20. say about 1983 or so.  
  21. -- 
  22. Kevin Cline
  23.