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Subject: Re: Ada for numerics computation (i.e. forget Fortran ?)
Date: 1999/04/27
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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.

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T.E.D.

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