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From: "Nick Payne" <njpayne@pcug.org.au.NOSPAM>
Subject: Re: Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it?
Date: 1997/08/02
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Date: 1997-08-02T00:00:00+00:00
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Jon S Anthony <jsa@alexandria.organon.com> wrote in article 
> Indeed.  In 20 years SICP will still be highly relevant, useful, and
> probably fresh.  OO may well have been tossed on the junk heap by
> then, but in any event (IMO) will not be holding center stage.

What makes you think that civilisation will still be here in 20 years? Face
it, what we play around with on computers is just so much irrelevant crap.
Which is not to say that I don't enjoy doing it...I just recognise that the
end of the line is not so far off...

Nick Payne
njpayne@pcug.org.au.NOSPAM