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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Ada for numerics computation (i.e. forget Fortran ?)
Date: 1999/04/27
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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.

Programmers want expressive languages that allow them to compose
powerful abstractions.  Mostly they don't care about language
complexity, in spite of what Sun says.