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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Current O-O Languages as Software Engineering Tools
Message-ID: <1836@garth.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 88 01:28:35 GMT
References: <5155@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA
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>1. Smalltalk-like languages (including Obj-C) do a better job of ....
>3. Simula-like languages are better tools for medium size software ....

Well, provided we're just being informal.....

I think it might be nice to have a sequence of closely related languages.
At one end would be a strong-typed Smalltalk (or whatever) which could be
compiled into fast code, Smalltalk in the middle, and then beyond Smalltalk
(where classes are first-class objects).

People could start at the high end with rapid developement and then migrate
toward the other end if the code was used often enough to justify the
effort to make it compilable.
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