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From: Thant Tessman <thant@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why
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Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 09:09:21 -0600
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Wesley Groleau wrote:
> 
>> as an object-oriented extension of C. Java became popular because it 
>> was deliberately designed to give C and C++ programmers features (like 
>> GC) that had already been around in other languages for years.
> 
> 
> No, Java became popular partly from hype and partly
> because it is better than C and C++ but not enough
> to intimidate users of those languages.
> 

Java has advantages over C++ and C++ has advantages over Java. But my 
point was actually that neither C++ nor Java are all that great.

-thant