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- From: billy@cast.msstate.edu (Billy Chambless)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer
- Subject: Re: ! Read me and State your opinion.
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 19:30:42 GMT
- Organization: Mississippi State University
- Message-ID: <4l6592$1ku@NNTP.MsState.Edu>
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- In article <316C1B03.7BE0@datalytics.com>, Dellis Hines <dellish@datalytics.com> writes:
-
- > 3) The entire concept of having an 'all and everything' language is flawed. This
- > is like a mechanic saying he likes his socket so much that he'll be throwing the
- > rest of his tools away. The same goes for C++; there are some tasks for which it's
- > inappropriate, and part of being an engineer is knowing when to use what tool.
-
- Bingo!
-
- I get the biggest kick out of the "Ada for everything" and
- "C++ is the Future" camps.
-
- I'm reminded of a taped interview with Grace Hopper, creator of COBOL.
-
- When asked for her opinions of the future of computing, she opined that
- what was needed was a variety of languages for various purposes.
-
- And remember, she worked on DoD's last attempt at a one-size-fits-all
- language. ;)
-
- My (limited) experience bears that out -- at our shop, we use C for some
- projects, C++ for others, and Perl for yet another class of products.
-
- One thing that _I've_ found is that working in more than one language
- makes programmers more creative in how they use any given language, just
- because of the different approaches.
-
- my $0.02 .....
- --
- The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness,
- Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why.
- -- from the Perl manpage
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-