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- From: lam@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Josh Lam)
- Subject: Re: Tired of the Ada vs. (Pick your language) discussion
- In-Reply-To: tarcea@gdls.CSCTMD.COM's message of 16 Dec 92 12:58:14 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.213258.23655@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com>
- Organization: Honeywell Air Transport Systems Division
- References: <BzCs15.B28@gdls.CSCTMD.COM>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 21:32:58 GMT
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- In article <BzCs15.B28@gdls.CSCTMD.COM> tarcea@gdls.CSCTMD.COM (Glenn Tarcea) writes:
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- Glenn> Can we please stay on the topic of discussing Ada, and Ada in
- Glenn> real-world systems. All languages have their strengths and weaknesses
- Glenn> and I am tired of hearing religous comparisons of why either Ada is
- Glenn> better than language X or language X is better than Ada. Maybe a news
- Glenn> group called comp.lang.religion should be started for these stupid
- Glenn> discussions. I program in both 'C' and Ada and I can appreciate the
- Glenn> strengths (and weaknesses) of each of the languages, I don't need
- Glenn> somebody to give me their supposedly unbiased opinion on language
- Glenn> greatness.
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- I agree whole-heartly!
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- Let's make more constructive use of this newsgroup. Also, its nice to see
- champions of various languages eg Grady Booch and Bjarne Stroustrup working
- and holding conferences together. Let's learn from them and be gracious.
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- Josh Lam
- Honeywell Inc
- lam@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com
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