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Re:Three Language Features You Need To Understand Before You... by downer on Sunday December 23, 2007 @08:17PM (#92302)
> "... we were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."

I've never understood that mindset. Java is about the opposite direction from Lisp.

At least C++ has generic metaprogramming.

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Re:Three Language Features You Need To Understand Before You... by pfedor on Monday December 24, 2007 @03:30PM (#92485)
I think he was referring to garbage collecting. Not that it makes this statement any more justified or anything.
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