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From: walth@netcom.com (Walt Howard)
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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On 2 Aug 97 09:28:20 GMT, "Nick Payne"
<njpayne@pcug.org.au.NOSPAM> wrote:

>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...
>
	Good. You're right. Go away now. That will leave more for the
rest of us.

	Walt Howard