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- From: Oliver Plohmann <opl@esec.ch>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Advice to Java proponents (was Re: Will Java kill C++?)
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:07:47 +0200
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- Message-ID: <31737F83.B92@esec.ch>
- References: <315BFB16.B74@isg.de> <4jgv6t$hon@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <4k3cdo$np5@taurus.adnc.com> <DpG1s1.GC9@research.att.com> <4k71f5$ot5@news2.ios.com> <31684F33.2528@ibm.net> <denatale-0804960926250001@grail1213.nando.net>
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- > In article <31684F33.2528@ibm.net>, Ernie Wright <javaguy@ibm.net> wrote:
-
- > But Smalltalk has really had more than 24 years under it's belt, and has
- > only really been widely available for less than half of that time. It had
- > a chance to mature and become coherent and mature in a nurturing
- > environment before it had to face the cold cruel world.
-
- If my Smalltalk history books are correct Smalltalk-72 consisted of
- some lines of BASIC code. So I think you are a bit exaggerating here.
- However, I agree that Smalltalk is the much more evolved system.
-
- On the other hand Java has received much more industry attention so
- far than Smalltalk did in its infancy. I like the Java approach being
- in between Smaltalk and C++. This is what is needed! Tired of writing
- a little app in Smalltalk which results in a 2 MB EXE-file that takes
- several minutes to start up? Tired of edit-compile-link-test-degub
- cycle in C++?
-
- /Olli
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