Re: C++



Greg Wooledge writes:
 > Marius Vollmer (mvo@zagadka.ping.de) wrote:
 > 
 > > I'd rather be sitting all day in the PARC than banging my head against
 > > a Bell.  [Now, did anyone even *get* this? :-]
 > 
 > Well, nobody else seems to have guessed yet, so I will.  PARC = Xerox
 > PARC, which pioneered the window/icon/mouse/pointer (WIMP) GUI.  Bell =
 > AT&T Bell Labs, which invented Unix.  So you're saying that you prefer
 > GUI's over command lines, right?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.  No, look at the Subject: line.  PARC ==
smalltalk, Bell == C++.  C++ has no garbage collection, smalltalk
requires it.

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