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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 03:41:56 -0700
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- In <4kel82$rit@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> jstern@primenet.com (Josh Stern) writes:
-
- >Erik P. DeBenedictis <erikd@netalive.com> wrote:
- >>I believe there are better comparisons than C/C++ and Java. There is precedent
- >>for applying marketing to computer languges, however. Prolog (or the Japanese
- >>5th generation computing initiative) and PL/1 got very expensive marketing campaigns
- >>as well. These were all bombs.
- >>Is it possible that Java will become the Prolog or PL/1 of the 90's?
- Rats! And I threw away my "Teach Yourself PL/I in 21 Days" book.
-
- >Different langußges are appropriate for different purposes -
- >IMO, Prolog and C++ shouldn't even be seen as competitors since
- >the basic facilities that they provide are so completely
- >orthogonal.
- At last! Somebody understands the situation. If any one language
- or paradigm had proved better, we'd have been down to one language long
- ago. But they just keep proliferating - because there's more than one
- kind of problem, and new ones keep popping up all the time.
-
- > If your application calls for the use of
- >unification, theorem proving using backward chaining,
- >dynamic backtracking search, or focuses primarily
- >on constraint relationships in your domain that are most
- >naturally represented using declarative (rather than
- >procedural) formalisms, then you would be foolish not
- >to look at including an off the shelf Prolog engine
- >in your code.
- You mean I can't do that in BASIC?????
-
- Mike Zorn ozma@kaiwan.com | Thought for the day:
- http://www.kaiwan.com/~ozma/ | Java is C--
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