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- From: dbell@shvn.com (Doug Bell)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:20:04 -0700
- Organization: FTL Games
- Message-ID: <dbell-1504961320040001@wholder2.cts.com>
- References: <31682FFE.2781E494@bbn.com> <DpJyGG.FKK@hkuxb.hku.hk> <denatale-1004960822260001@grail1506.nando.net> <dbell-1104960125190001@wholder2.cts.com> <goochb.327.000893D1@rwi.com> <dbell-1104961159050001@wholder2.cts.com> <316D8523.74D7@concentric.n <goochb.339.00099333@rwi.com>
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- In article <goochb.339.00099333@rwi.com>, goochb@rwi.com (William D.
- Gooch) wrote:
-
- > In article <3170B180.51A8@concentric.net> "Alan L. Lovejoy"
- <alovejoy@concentric.net> writes:
- >
- [snip]
- >
- > >Another point to consider: Smalltalk (and LISP) would probably benefit from
- > >a Java processor as much as would Java itself. At the "bytecode" level,
- > >syntax differences and static typing are no longer relevant.
- >
- > Excellent point. Anyone know how many bits are in a Java
- > machine word?
- >
- >
- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- > William D. Gooch
- > RothWell International
- > goochb@rwi.com
- > Texas liaison for the International Programmers Guild
- > For information on IPG, see http://www.ipgnet.com/ipghome.htm
- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Er...A byte is usually 8-bits. That's what a bytecode is in this case at least.
-
- Doug Bell
- dbell@shvn.com
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