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- From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 09:47:03 -0500
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- Message-ID: <dewar.826123481@schonberg>
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- "Last I heard, Ada programmers can walk on water and raise the dead!"
-
- Well you didn't read any nonsense like that here, and anyway, as you have
- made abundantly clear, you know nothing about Ada.
-
- But the real point is that your attitude ("I can program anything without
- difficulty, anyone who cannot is incompetent"), is an entertaining
- distillation of what is wrong with so many programmers today. Of course
- this goes away with real experience, but projects get badly damaged
- by this kind of attitude on the way.
-
- This is not a language issue. Some langyuages encourage a software
- engineering perspective more than others, but an SE perspectve is
- a requisite no matter WHAT language you are using.
-
-