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From: bs@alice.UUCP (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: OO debuggers
Summary: C++ is not just a UNIX language
Message-ID: <8218@alice.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 88 01:34:33 GMT
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I have now seen this remark flash by my scream a couple of times:

 > C++ has a lot of catching up to do, but it seems to be evolving strictly in
 > the incestuous C-Unix environment.

and somebody even agrees:

 > Agreed. Sad isn't it?

I'm not sure the C/UNIX environment is more ``incestuous'' than other
environments, but even if it is the statement is flat wrong. C++ work
- including work that will directly affect the language and the way
it is used - is going on in other environments including the Mac, the
PCclone world, and Smalltalk.

Come on guys. C++ hasn't been generally available for 3 years yet.
It hasn't even completed its planned growth in its native UNIX environment.
How fast do you expect evolution to work?