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- Item 2775303 7-Feb-91 15:20PST
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- From: MERRITT Merritt, Jim
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- To: JEFFRIES.L Leslie Jeffries,GEIS
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- MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Re: Re: Re: MADA Conference Up
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- As a dyed-in-the wool adherent of Algol-descendant languages such as Pascal,
- Modula-2, and Oberon, I must admit that I like the idea of two versions of
- MacApp, one in OP and one in C++. (Anyone for an Oberon version???) In the
- spirit of diversity, I support letting each programmer or programming shop work
- in the language that lets them be most productive and happy. Intentionally
- biasing a system (and MacApp has definitely grown to be a system, I think we'll
- all agree) to favor one programming language over another is, IMHO, dangerously
- exclusive. My experience tells me that successful systems most resemble
- wide-open sandboxes, giving everyone plenty of room to play. Originally, when
- Object Pascal was the only reasonable alternative, it made sense for MacApp to
- be written only in that language. These days, C++ is an alternative, too, but
- only an alternative. I don't think it has shown the requisite superiority over
- OP or other contenders to be the only MacApp language. But the way I see it,
- C++ should be ONE of the MacApp languages, OP another.
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- Yours firmly on the side of religious tolerance,
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- -Jim Merritt
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