Barry Margolin
4/25/2016 6:56:00 PM
In article <m2eg9tpp33.fsf@gmail.com>, Raymond Wiker <rwiker@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Jim Newton <jimka.issy@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 1996 - James Gosling invents Java. Java is a relatively verbose,
> ^^^^^^^^^
> You misspelled "extremely" :-)
>
> > garbage collected, class based, statically typed, single dispatch,
> > object oriented language with single implementation inheritance and
> > multiple interface inheritance. Sun loudly heralds Java's novelty.
>
> Many, many moons ago, somebody joked that an object-oriented version of
> COBOL had been defined; the name of this was supposed to be "ADD 1 to
> COBOL".
>
> The actual name of object-oriented COBOL seems to be Java.
Which came first, Java or C++ STL? Because heavily templated C++ looks a
lot like Java to me these days.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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