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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 07:04:17 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Message-ID: <4hhl5hINNq2t@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <dewar.825776000@schonberg> <4hdt1tINN44i@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <4hg3pb$jq0@tomquartz.niestu.com>
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- In article <4hg3pb$jq0@tomquartz.niestu.com>,
- Chip Richards <chipr@niestu.com> wrote:
- >In article <4hdt1tINN44i@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>, Kazimir Kylheku wrote:
- >
- > Blame it on your incomplete mastery of programming.
- >
- >As opposed to, say, your *complete* mastery, eh?
- >
- >Kazimir, do me a favor--write down my e-mail address and tuck it away
- >someplace safe. In ten years, or perhaps twenty, please write to me and tell
-
- Think you will still have the same e-mail address, eh?
-
- >me that you *still* feel that your comments in this debate are defensible.
- >*Then* I will reconsider my position, and yours.
-
- Yes, maybe in twenty years time I too will see the insightful connection
- between a Ada and C program, and a modern Volvo versus some 1960's wreck,
- which, due to my apparent immaturity, I don't see right now. Though I do see
- the relationship between cars and operating systems---that long I do have been
- following advocacy groups. You see, your cool operating
- system/language/computer/whatever is like a nice Volvo or maybe Lamborghini
- (depending on whether on this particular day you are spouting about reliability
- or performance) and the other item is a rusty wreck made by G.M. Uh huh!
-
- In twenty years time, I will surely place my blind trust in a ``safe'' software
- engineering language by then, and take a bunch of inexperienced programmers
- with me into a defence contract.
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