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- From: wald@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David Wald)
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- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 14:21:15 GMT
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- In article <DAVIS.96Apr18170149@grasse.ilog.com> davis@ilog.com
- (Harley Davis) writes:
- >In article <BLUME.96Apr18103856@zayin.cs.princeton.edu>
- >blume@zayin.cs.princeton.edu (Matthias Blume) writes:
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- >> It turns out that inheritance with overiding hasn't been successfully
- >> modelled yet in any clean semantic framework. There has been some
- >> progress, but usually people stop just short of adding inheritance,
- >> because it messes everything up.
-
- >Strange how such an unclean concept can be so useful in practice. But
- >what can you do with people who just keep using a tool no matter how
- >many denotational semanticians say it's unfounded?
-
- Well, last I saw there were still researchers trying to straighten out
- the semantics of local variables in Algol. There are many levels of
- "clean" in semantics.
-
- -David
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