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- From: maxtal@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (John MAX Skaller)
- Subject: Re: feedback wanted on appropriate OOPL
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.170730.1837@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:07:30 GMT
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- In article <1itoe9INNi05@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ac690@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edward Klimas) writes:
- > The message at OOPSLA-92 from two separate experience reports
- > was that Smalltalk was possibly as much as an order of
- > magnitude better than C/C++ in terms of quality of the resulting
- > code. The result is that the current implementations of
- > type checking don't bring as much to the quality table as other
- > C++ issues like runaway pointers and memory management take away.
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- In 5 years, when Stalk is compared to C++ and not to C/C++,
- and C++ has matured, the picture may change.
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