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- Path: netcom.com!bks
- From: bks@netcom.com (Bradley K. Sherman)
- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
- Message-ID: <bksDoFwBA.Eut@netcom.com>
- Organization: Remote Fusion Reactor Reverse Entropy Associates
- References: <1995Jul3.034108.4193@rcmcon.com> <RMARTIN.96Mar15094448@rcm.oma.com> <bksDoE2Fu.GBp@netcom.com> <653t-Df-3RB@herold.franken.de>
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 01:33:10 GMT
- Sender: bks@netcom4.netcom.com
-
- Joachim Durchholz <jhd@herold.franken.de> wrote:
- >bks@netcom.com wrote:
- >> Would someone be kind enough to remind me of one single
- >> important contribution to the Web or the Internet that
- >> is written in eiffel?
-
- >Oh no... with that argument, you can easily dismiss *any* new language.
-
- Typical OO enthusiast. After 10 years Eiffel is still *new*.
- Send me an interrupt when you're ready to execute, okay?
-
- At least the structured programming aficionados had the NY Times
- database to point to, even if it was sui generis.
-
- --bks
-
- p.s. If I were going to give an example of *successful* reuse
- of code it would be Perl. Perl & Eiffel are about the same
- age, I think.
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