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- From: tottinge@csci.csc.com (Tim Ottinger)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.object,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 96 14:09:23 GMT
- Organization: CSC CIS - TRIS DIVISION
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- References: <4i862r$1evq@saba.info.ucla.edu> <4i99if$8ve@solutions.solon.com>
- <4i9u0l$vru@saba.info.ucla.edu> <4ia3gf$drf@solutions.solon.com> <DoE2nH.FIM@iquest.net>
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- In article <DoE2nH.FIM@iquest.net>,
- dlmiller@iquest.net (Doug & Rose Miller) wrote:
- >seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) wrote:
- >+In article <4i9u0l$vru@saba.info.ucla.edu>,
- >+Jay Martin <jmartin@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
- >+>seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) writes:
- ><lots of meaningless drivel snipped>
- >
- >+Statistically speaking, it's hard to find *any* Eiffel programmers. It is
- no
- >+coincidence that the majority of programmers of *any* sort today are using C
- >+at least some of the time; it's the most widespread language
- >
- >WRONG. Guess again. It's Cobol.
-
- Today is, what?, the twentieth? Then that's probably still true. BTW: there
- are a lot of COBOL "hackers" (neg connotation) out there, and they're still
- doing some amazing things.
-
- Tim
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