Interesting Quote

[Hans Fugal]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 at 10:05 -0700, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 11:02:38 -0600, "Levi Pearson" <levi at cold.org> said:
> > C++ has something of the TMTOWTDI philosophy as well.
> 
> Yes.  That's a large reason why most companies (outside of the obvious
> specialized areas) have been moving away from C++ for years.


... to Java and other OO languages who also provide the very TMTOWTDI
points that Levi mentioned (e.g. polymorphism)?

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