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From: phinely@Hawaii.Edu (Peter Hinely)
Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
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In article <4k3cdo$np5@taurus.adnc.com>, Terry Sikes <tsikes@netcom.com> wrote:
>dshaker@samsara.smalltalk.com (Doug Shaker) wrote:
>
>For an interesting evangelical view, see JavaWorld's interview
>with Kim Polese, former head of Java marketing at Sun:
>
>http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-1996/jw-04-polese.html
>
>To quote in part (used without permission):
>
>"I would say just from a standpoint of programming language popularity, I
>think Java is going to replace C++ and is boing to become the language that
>university students learn when they sit down and write their first line of
>code,

That very well may be, but I think computer science departe departments
are relatively conservative in their choice of teaching languages, and
take quite a while to adopt a new teaching language.  Who knows... by the
time Java is a mainstream language used in CS courses, there may be other
newer languages that are the "hot-thing". 

>because it is (Java) the best example of what a programming language should
>be.  

Puh-lease!

>It is an exemplary programming language.  

Not!

>It has all the right features
>in it, and it's very elegantly constructed and architected."
>

What about multiple inheritance?  Functions as first class objects?
