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Lucky for us C++ is backwards compatible ;)

• DonHopkins 2y ago
  Too bad about C++++-= (aka Live Oak aka Java)! https://donhopkins.medium.com/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-million-instructions-per-second-3a8c92165cfe https://donhopkins.medium.com/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-mill... >Introduction >These are some highlights from a prescient talk by Bill Joy in February of 1991. >“It’s vintage wnj. When assessing wnj-speak, remember Eric Schmidt’s comment that Bill is almost always qualitatively right, but the time scale is sometimes wrong.” -David Hough >C++++-= >“C++++-= is the new language that is a little more than C++ and a lot less.” -Bill Joy >In this talk from 1991, Bill Joy predicts a new hypothetical language that he calls “C++++-=”, which adds some things to C++, and takes away some other things. >Oak >It’s no co-incidence that in 1991, James Gosling started developing a programming language called Oak, which later evolved into Java. >“Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.” -James Gosling >Fortunately James had the sense to name his language after the tree growing outside his office window, instead of calling it “C++++-=”. (Bill and James also have very different tastes in text editors, too!)