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- From: crawley@dstc.edu.au (Stephen Crawley)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 02:41:44 GMT
- Organization: CRC for Distributed Systems Technology
- Message-ID: <4fm9d8$mgs@azure.dstc.edu.au>
- References: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <BYERLY_J.96Feb7170158@srm9.motsat.sat.mot.com> <4fc0ff$ipd@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> <4fcra7$fva@solutions.solon.com>
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- In article <4fcra7$fva@solutions.solon.com>,
- Peter Seebach <seebs@solutions.solon.com> wrote:
- >[all context deleted]
- >I am amazed people are bothering to respond to the argument by popularity;
- >right now, English is supported by more than a billion distinct platforms,
- >all blindingly fast.
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- Speak for yourself :-)
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- >It's cheap, books on it or illustrating how to use it
- >are widely available, and yet, no one reccommends using it for software
- >engineering. :) (Probably too much implementation defined behavior.)
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- English is a good example of what happens when you let the user
- community design the language :-)
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- -- Steve
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