From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Ada for numerics computation (i.e. forget Fortran ?)
Date: 1999/04/27
Date: 1999-04-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7g4vt6$81l$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3wvyyt1er.fsf@mheaney.ni.net
In article <m3wvyyt1er.fsf@mheaney.ni.net>,
Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote:
> me@me writes:
>
> > I think the reason for Java popularity is that people in general were not
> > happy with C++ (too complicated, etc..) , and wanted a different OO
> > language, and Java came at the right time, and it looked like C++ to
> > keep the crowds happy.
>
> I doubt it. The only people who think C++ is too complex are the
> marketing people at Sun, who spend millions selling the
> complexity-is-bad idea to the rest of us.
I suspect Niklaus Wirth and fans of Oberon would disagree with this statement.
--
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-23 0:00 Ada for numerics computation (i.e. forget Fortran ?) Hans N. Beck
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-04-24 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-04-25 0:00 ` Edwin Guenthner
1999-04-25 0:00 ` bill
1999-04-25 0:00 ` Edwin Guenthner
1999-04-26 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-04-26 0:00 ` Edwin Guenthner
1999-04-26 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-04-27 0:00 ` me
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Edwin Guenthner
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-27 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1999-04-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Joachim Schroeer
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