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,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Alan Lovejoy Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/01/28 Message-ID: <32EEC76F.6A80@concentric.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 212882645 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> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Modulation mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng x-mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (Win95; U) Date: 1997-01-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > 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! More distortion. Just because the financial institutions have tried C++ then rejected it in favor of Smalltalk and Objective-C does not mean they are never wrong and never make mistakes. After all, they tried to use C++ first instead of Smalltalk . But to conclude that my statements imply that I have some sort of naive faith and trust in "the financial people" is a slimy rhetorical device with no justification whatsoever. Shame on you. -- Alan L. Lovejoy |==============================================| Smalltalk Consultant | Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs! | alovejoy@concentric.net |==============================================|