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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: An interesting quote on Java and C++
Date: 1997/09/08
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Date: 1997-09-08T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <01bcb881$915526a0$d7000064@sim01.amst.co.at>,
Joachim Schroeer <schroeer@amst.co.at> wrote:
>Possibly the Java designers never heard of Ada, otherwise they did not have
>to invent a new language.

Surely you're not saying that Ada (as is) meets the goals of Java?

>Stroustrup said, that a reason why they developed C++ was, "we
>did not want to program in C". There are other ways to prevent that ...

Indeed.

- Bob