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To: i-node who wrote (4673)	2/28/2000 3:18:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 5102

I read Stroustrup's The Design and Evolution of C++ a couple of years ago and I also remember the Java remarks. Instead of embracing it he dissed it and tried to distance Java from C++, essentially calling it Smalltalk++. Fine by me, but smalltalk was relatively unpopular despite a decade plus of effort to push it. The fact is, smalltalk was a big flop as was ada. C++ was a big hit as is Java. Stroustrup's just worried that his language will fade into the sunset in the shadow of Java. That's almost certainly going to happen.