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From: wgh@ubbpc.UUCP (William G. Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Can Turing survive?
Summary: Here is a survival strategy
Message-ID: <448@ubbpc.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 89 13:45:40 GMT
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In article <117400001@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> I read some interesting article about Turing in Dec 88 issue of Communications
> of ACM.  It seems that Turing Plus is the language for me according to 
> the authors' claim.  
> 1.  Can Turing have a chance to survive the competition among C++, 
> Modula2 or -3 ?
> 
>                        Hugh   gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu


 I do not know if Turing will survive, but I have a suggestion about how it
might be done:

 C and C++ have UNIX locked up right now, and MS-DOS and probably OS/2, so
one must look to the future.

 If the Turing people produce a very good implementation for the Mach operating
system, and if they do a sales job on Steve Jobs and get him to include it
with each NeXT system, and if the NeXT system takes off in a big way in the
academic market, they MIGHT have a slim chance of being successful.
 I do not see any other strategy for them that has a realistic chance of
success.  Any other suggestions?
-- 
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