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From: maxtal@Physics.usyd.edu.au (John Max Skaller)
Subject: Re: C+@s and Dogs
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In article <3l83dh$88m@asia.lm.com>,
Jim Kownacki <kanak@telerama.lm.com> wrote:
>
>Oh please.  They're hedging their bets on how big the Smalltalk market is 
>going to get?  Please.  I could have told them 10 years ago that 
>Smalltalk is dead.  Smalltalk ain't important commercially.  It's that 
>simple.  

	In Australia this is not true. Smalltalk is NOT dead.
It is doing fine, and sometimes replacing C++. I would guess
it as a smaller percentage of the OO market than C++ over here,
but the percentage is significant. And it appears to be growing.
Eiffel has a tiny share, but that may change because it is
used as a teaching language and is becoming increasing more
commerialised.

	Since both Eiffel and Smalltalk have Garbage Collection
and C++ doesn't they both offer significant advantages,
especially to teams of less than expert programmers.

	However their use is limited by difficulty of
interfacing to operating systems and APIs.

	IMHO C/C++ is already _the_ major international 
general purpose programming language and there is no
chance it will be knocked off the top of the mountain
for at least a decade. Its closest contender is probably
still COBOL. :-(
 
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