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- From: mvantassel@teambca.com (Mark VanTassel)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 21:54:39 GMT
- Organization: Barfield, Cauthen and Associates
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- jet@eskimo.com (James Thiele) wrote:
-
- >*several decades*? Not really. C was invented around 1970. It only
- >existed on UNIX and a few IBM and Honeywell systems in 1975 (look at the
- >Bell System Technical Journal special edition on UNIX if you don't
- >believe me).
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- >C was not "king of the hill" anywhere except on UNIX before the
- >80s. In my dictionary "several" is more than one and a half.
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- >IMHO your observation of history is wrong.
-
- OK, so I like to exaggerate (no, wait - I LOVE to exaggerate ;-)
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- Change "several decades" to "a decade and a half or so" and the
- argument still stands. In this industry, 15 years is a lifetime.
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- - /\/\ark \/anTassel (mvantassel@teambca.com)
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