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From: jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better!
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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 19:33:16 GMT
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: Curious, was the catastophe because of Smalltalk?  Or because of bad
: design/requirements analysis?  I would be more inclined to guess the
: later.  Like the Arianne V that blew up awhile back? 

etc.

I keep wondering, why all this heated debat? Why try to convince each
other the the language you like best is the ideal for everything ?
Isn't this whole discussion futile since programming languages are just
tools, and not every problem looks like a nail ?

Smalltalk would not exactly be my first choice if I had to built a large
reliable system. Neither would Ada be my first choice for developing
a PC GUI front-end. But I have developed a banking application in which
the presentation- and application layers were written in Smalltalk,
while the functional- and interface layers were written in Ada.

Jerry.
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| Jerry van Dijk | Consultant, Ordina Finance BV |
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