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- From: ozma@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (Mike Zorn)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: 14 Apr 1996 03:25:49 -0700
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- References: <315BFB16.B74@isg.de> <4jgv6t$hon@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <4k3cdo$np5@taurus.adnc.com> <DpG1s1.GC9@research.att.com> <4k7akk$nsh@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <4kbfnf$1bu@news1.is.net> <dbell-0804961720020001@wholder2.cts.com>
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- In <dbell-0804961720020001@wholder2.cts.com> dbell@shvn.com (Doug Bell) writes:
- >In article <4kbfnf$1bu@news1.is.net>, mvantassel@teambca.com (Mark
- >VanTassel) wrote:
- >> linden@positive.eng.sun.com (Peter van der Linden) wrote:
- >> >My personal belief is that C++ has peaked and will now go into a steady
- >> >decline. But lets see some metrics proposed for measuring this.
- >Who says C++ is now king of the hill? I don't have the numbers to back
- >this up, but it's my understanding that despite the steady increase in C++
- >use, C is still used more widely. A more correct statement would probably
- >be: C++ is now king of the large-and-complex-OS-API hill.
- There's lots of ways to measure kingness. If you just count lines
- of legacy code, then certainly COBOL has got to be it. (In fact,
- they're just about to release Object-Oriented COBOL. [One shudders to
- think of the syntax.])
- Perhaps a better measure is 'lines of code being developed today'.
- I agree with Peter that C is probably it, at least for a while.
-
- Mike Zorn ozma@kaiwan.com | Thought for the day:
- http://www.kaiwan.com/~ozma/ | Java is C--
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