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From: peteward@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Peter Ward")
Subject: Reinventing the wheel
Message-ID: <Dqu6L0.I7w@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Organization: Softwright
Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 15:48:36 GMT
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I am dismayed by the way that the compiler vendors and others hype 
various 'new' features which have been around elsewhere for many years. 
The C++ fraternity seem guilty of this. I would like to produce a list of 
these features and would be grateful for any responses. For starters, we 
have:

"Integrated Development Environment"
        fans of early lisp machines could give dates and comparisons
        with C++ environments in terms of features not the language.
        
"User Interface Builder"
        ditto
        
"Dynamic HTML generation"
        like the CL-HTTP servers have been doing for years
        
"Downloadable portable applets"
        ... like bits of Lisp code. Out-hyped by the Java machine.
        
"Detects memory leaks"
        No comment, but Java will popularise GC.

"Incremental compilation"
        This probably was worth hyping because it must have been hard
        to do in a C environment.
        
Contributions by email please. I will organise and summarise.

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Peter Ward
pjw@langley.softwright.co.uk

