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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: f79bb,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf79bb,public X-Google-Thread: 10a640,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a640,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: David Bennett Subject: Re: Eiffel and Java Date: 1996/10/31 Message-ID: <1996Oct31.051126.19106@schbbs.mot.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 193806159 sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (SCHBBS News Account) references: <550sm2$sn1@buggy.news.easynet.net> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Motorola Australia Software Center mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.sather,comp.object,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.clos,fr.comp.objet x-mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) Date: 1996-10-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jean-Michel P. Decombe wrote: > > Java is just the beginning of a new era, but it's certainly not the > language who will necessarily win in the end. For now, it's the only one > to do what it does, thus it's the "current" winner... Interesting point. The first person to the market gets 70% of the market share. Java managed to be the first to create a platform independant compiler that will work in web browsers. I think it will be very hard to get rid of them now, or change it in any major way. Saying that Eiffel (because it is a better language) will win is not strictly true. Why do people still use Fortran and Cobol? Wombles, David. -- --- David Bennett (A13016@email.mot.com) --*-- May the butterflies of your mind never obscure the truth