From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, RATWARE_MS_HASH,RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: "Bob Jarvis" Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/01/27 Message-ID: <01bc0c56$8c2b4ce0$c318b993@jarvisb>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 212515417 references: <32DF458F.4D5C@concentric.net> <32DF94DC.6FF8@watson.ibm.com> <32DFD972.37E4@concentric.net> <5bphq4$5js@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <32E05FAF.47BA@concentric.net> organization: The Timken Company newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1997-01-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote in article ... > iAlan said > > "So then, why have so many investment banks adopted Smalltalk as the language > of choice for doing securities trading applications? The reason typically > given is that development speed in Smalltalk is so much faster--which boils > down to big bucks on the trading floor. Could the financial people be wrong?" > > > Note incidentally that these "financial people" in whom Alan has so much > trust are the folks who have brought you the multi-billion $ Y2K disaster! I don't think you can lay the Y2K problems solely at the feet of the financial industry. It's the responsibility of every developer who has ever stored a 2-digit year in any program. -- Bob Jarvis Mail addresses hacked to foil automailers! Send replies to jarvisb@timken.com