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- From: jstern@primenet.com (Josh Stern)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 15:16:01 -0700
- Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet
- Sender: root@primenet.com
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- References: <31682FFE.2781E494@bbn.com> <dbell-1104960125190001@wholder2.cts.com> <1996Apr12.000409.29727@alw.nih.gov> <dbell-1204961347340001@wholder2.cts.com>
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- >> |> (e.g. assembly, C, C++, insert any
- >> |> widely adopted language here), rather than those using the elegant and
- >> |> refined tools of the sophisticates (e.g. Smalltalk, Lisp, Prolog, insert
- >> |> any language rarely used for commercial applications here) ARE PRODUCING
- >> |> ALL THE PRODUCTS!
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- >Ada, COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal and others were not intended to be excluded
- >from the "widely adopted language" category by their omission.
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- >and people who program in the languages of the intelligentsia
- >are not necessarily better, more productive or making a larger
- >contribution to the advancement of the art than those using widely adopted
- >languages. They do seem to have somewhat of a larger chip on their
- >shoulders though.
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- Were these postings meant to be taken as a parody of political
- conservatives and self-proclaimed populists discussing programming
- languages?
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- ....hehe, quite funny!
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- - Josh
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