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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it?
Date: 1997/07/18
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Date: 1997-07-18T00:00:00+00:00
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Paul said

<<C++ (the obvious choice) is a highly complex language, so it takes a
long time to learn.  This is time that will not be spent learning
good, solid software engineering.
>>

Actually I don't think that C++ is the "obvious choice" any more. Among
academics chasing relevancy, C++ seems to be the language of yesterday,
the language du jour appears to be Java.