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From: boissier@irisa.fr (franck boissiere)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Syntax Change Not Paradigm Shift
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.074011.25607@irisa.fr>
Date: 15 Apr 91 07:40:11 GMT
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From article <47.UUL1.3#913@acw.com>, by scott@acw.com (Scott Guthery):


> 
> Every routine in the NIH C++ Class Library can be found in assembly language
> libraries (for every machine you care to name), Fortran libraries (Fortran I,
> II, III, IV, DEC, IBM, etc.), C libraries (AT&T, BSD, Sun, HP, Mach, Next,
> Xenix, etc.), Pascal libraries (ISO, Turbo, DEC, etc.), PL/I libraries (IBM,
> Unisys, Standard), Lisp libraries (east coast, west coast, Common, Portable,
> E, etc.), and Basic libraries (True, Microsoft, HP, etc.).  And I'll bet I
> can find them in Eiffel libraries, Objective-C libraries, Common Loops
> libraries, and Smalltalk libraries (Xerox, Digitalk, Tektronix, etc.).  It
> constantly amazes me that they continue to pay us for this text mongering and
> it embarrasses me that we accept the money.  
> 

Now we can have the an Idea of your ignorance. While you bet that what
can be found in NIHCL might be found in Smalltalk and others, you'd
better know what you try to speak about. NIHCL is derived from ideas 
of the Smalltalk classes.
-- 
Franck BOISSIERE                        boissier@irisa.irisa.fr
C.C.E.T.T.   B.P. 59                    boissiere@ccett.fr
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