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From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:02:56 -0400
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| how did we get here?

Smart guys at Bell Labs produced an efficient OO language, and spread
it around widely, and no one else managed to produce an effective
(comfortable, usable, efficient) alternative.