Go ahead and tell him and let's see ...

Cheers,

Alan

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At 12:36 AM +0000 2/13/02, Jean Berger wrote:
>Perhaps take a look at:
>
>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/11/1857203&mode=flat&tid=156
>
>A brief snippet:
>
>"My company is about to start development on a new project, and I have
>to decide on a language and development environment. My boss gave me a set
>of criteria which needs to be filled: intuitive and easy to use IDE;
>simplified GUI design and event handling; advanced error handling;
>advanced object oriented design including multiple inheritance, abstract
>classes, and garbage collection; full support for operator and function
>overloading; and portable (at compile-time) across various platforms. I
>have already looked at C++, Java, C++, C#, Eiffel, and even VB.net; I may
>be missing something but as far as I can tell all of these languages are
>missing something from this list. Is there a language available that has
>all of these features? I thought that someone from Slashdot would be able
>to point me in the right direction?" If you were to design a language from
>the ground up, what features would you include and why?"
>
>Looks to me as though Squeak has most (all?) of what this guy's looking
>for? Any Comments?


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