To those of us who have been making a living on mainframes and minis for the past 25 years, your October [cover] headline "The PC Is Dead" was quite amusing. I can't count the times I've read that the mainframe is dead, or the AS/400 is dead, or an operating system is dead, or a programming language is dead. Meanwhile, our business just continues to grow and grow among all these technologies tech writers have written off.
Hank Heath
Medco Systems Inc., Marlton, NJ
HankHeath@aol.com
The inside headline ("The New PC") is not quite as sensational; neither is my story. However, if prodded (not very hard), I would say that the PC
should
be dead. Today's PCs are a shameful hodgepodge of clumsy technologies that waste untold hours of users' time and soak up productivity like a sponge. If BYTE made fun o
f this situation by indulging in a little hyperbole, then I plead guilty and throw myself on the mercy of the court. -- Tom R. Halfhill, senior editor
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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