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- From: dhanle2@icarus.cc.uic.edu (David James Hanley)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
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- Date: 16 Apr 1996 23:41:30 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
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- Andrew Koenig (ark@research.att.com) wrote:
-
- : But such a program (a) would have to be rewritten for every machine
- : to which C++ was ported, and (b) would not solve the problem of what
- : name to give the linker for overloaded functions with the same name.
-
- Well, while you're declaring this task impossible, Java JIT
- compilers are going to make it possible to share objects compiled on
- differrent platforms, with speed approaching that of C++.
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- David Hanley, |______ Computer Science graduate student.
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