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: 10a640,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a640,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: f79bb,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf79bb,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: Alan Lovejoy Subject: Re: Eiffel and Java Date: 1996/11/01 Message-ID: <327A4DE9.3E7F@concentric.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 193751686 references: <55303v$ie9@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> <01bbc7f6$b1c0b7a0$LocalHost@gaijin> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Modulation 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 2.01Gold (Win95; U) Date: 1996-11-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Chris wrote: > > The point with Java is that it's nearly C++. > > So, even if it's not the best language, the C++ community would choose it But it won't kill off or significantly hurt other languages. Java is a big threat to the market share of C++, partly because it panders to the prejudices of C++ coders, and partly because it is a better business programming language than C++ (which is a better systems programming language than Java). C++ and C are both systems programming language that are widely used for business programming, a niche for which they are not ideal. Other languages are not so vulnerable, because they are not so widely used for a purpose for which they were not designed, and because their practitioners won't be seduced by the fact that Java is so similar to C++. -- Alan L. Lovejoy |==============================================| Smalltalk Consultant | Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs! | alovejoy@concentric.net |==============================================|