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From: Tom Moran <tmoran@bix.com>
Subject: language marketing question, was Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1997/01/24
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> But anyone seeing the real situation in the
> software world at large could not fail to notice the gigantic amount of
> both "hype" (his term in the first paragraph) and "marketing" (his term
> in the second) behind C++. 
  Does anyone know of a marketing case study of the initial growth of C
and Unix?  Both the words and the money behind them?