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- From: ungolian@shellx.best.com (Donald Cantrell)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: 13 Apr 1996 07:10:32 -0700
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- References: <4k3cdo$np5@taurus.adnc.com> <316A66FA.4F4B@netalive.com> <316CA38D.5D96@ls.barrhead.ab.ca> <316E744C.5D2B@netalive.com>
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- In article <316E744C.5D2B@netalive.com>,
- Erik P. DeBenedictis <erikd@netalive.com> wrote:
- >
- >Good question, and it does have an answer. In the USA, Prolog was an acedemic
- >language that never attracted a wide following.
- >
- >Japan, however, based its "fifth generation computing initiative" on Prolog.
- >The idea (in both Japan and the USA) was that Japan's equivalent of DARPA
- >would -- in one fell swoop involving several billion dollars
- >of research funding -- take away the lead the USA has in software and
- >bring it to Japan.
- >
- >This happened 10-15 years ago.
- >
- >It was a really big deal in the USA at that time. While I don't recall exactly,
- >I believe the issue got the cover of Time-type magazines a half-dozen times
- >as well as generating several hundred less-prominent articles in the popular
- >press.
- >
- >I believe my comparison between Prolog and Java is worth considering, although
- >I will admit there are differences. Japan is not the USA, and Silicon Valley
- >(home of Netscape and Sun) is administred very differently than DARPA or MITI.
- >
- >Erik DeBenedictis
-
- Not to mention, the Fifth generation computing initiative was, from the start,
- a very bureaucratized, top-down setup. I would say a better analogy would
- be with some defense department boondoggle.
-
- Donald Cantrell
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