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From: jur@topdog.cs.umbc.edu (Jacqueline U. Robertson)
Subject: Re: Which language pays most? Smalltalk, not C++ nor Java.
Date: 1998/01/03
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Date: 1998-01-03T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <34AEB339.4448B20@charmedquark.com>,
Dean Roddey  <droddey@charmedquark.com> wrote:
>performance is kind of a limiting factor. Even with a language like C++, which very much lives towards the speed side of
>the speed/abstraction continuum, we see that our code has performance issues. Some of us just don't feel like we can
>afford to move any further along that continuum right now.
>

Just curious - what kind of apps are you doing where the 'speed penalty'
of Smalltalk or Java would make C++ necessary ?  For UI driven apps,
both are more than fast enough, as user actions are the driving factor.  
If a dbms is on the back end, then the speed of the queries will limit
you regardless of language.


>And, when we do, I hope that it will not be Smalltalk or Java that makes us move that way. I hope that its a language that
>>takes the best of what's out there, plus a lot of what's been learned in recent years. I would hope that it would address
>both the needs of high performance, statically typed, heavily compile type checked systems and those of on-the-fly
>interpreted, distributed systems simultaneously.
>

Just as an FYI, Smalltalk is not now (and has not been for years from any
of the major vendors) interpreted.  


James A. Robertson
email: jamesr@parcplace.com
phone: 410 952-0471

<note that I am posting through my wife's account.  I don't claim to speak for
her>

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