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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better!
Date: 1997/01/25
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iAlan said

"So then, why have so many investment banks adopted Smalltalk as the language
of choice for doing securities trading applications?  The reason typically
given is that development speed in Smalltalk is so much faster--which boils
down to big bucks on the trading floor.  Could the financial people be wrong?"


Note incidentally that these "financial people" in whom Alan has so much
trust are the folks who have brought you the multi-billion $ Y2K disaster!