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From: paul.johnson@gecm.com (Paul Johnson)
Subject: Re: The great Java showcase (re: 2nd historic mistake)
Date: 1997/08/29
Message-ID: <5u60ti$e23$4@miranda.gmrc.gecm.com>#1/1
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References: <34023FC9.59E2B600@eiffel.com> <3402FD4D.C196785B@brightwood.com>
 <5u3co8$gtf$3@miranda.gmrc.gecm.com> <dewar.872791624@merv>
Organization: GEC-Marconi Research Centre
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 comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.java.tech,comp.lang.c++
Date: 1997-08-29T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.872791624@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu says...
>
>Paul Johnson said
>
><<IBM PC vs just about anything else>>
>
>Another example where the techies think they know better than customers.
>If you don't understand why the IBM PC succeeded over what seem to you
>to be clearly technically superior alternatives, you just don't understand
>that market place!

I understand that marketplace perfectly well.  I know the history of the 
IBM PC and its clones.  I can see the logic of each decision which 
brought us to where we are now (me typing this on a P5-90 under Win95).
That does not negate my point.  If anything, it re-enforces it.

I've talked to people about Eiffel, and then watched them go out and buy
C++.  And I understand their reasons perfectly well.

Paul.


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