Re: Reply to Ousterhout's reply (was Re: Ousterhout and Tcl ...)

[fjh@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)]

Graham Matthews <graham.matthews@maths.anu.edu.au> writes:

>... Java is taking off commercially and yet
>it is essentially a subset of Smalltalk.

Hmm, didn't you forget to put the phrase "strongly typed" somewhere?

Perhaps the reason that Java is taking off commercially is that it is
seen as essentially a subset of <insert your favorite language here> ;-)

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