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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: What is Object Oriented Programming? Is C doomed?
- Message-ID: <id.B5CW.K62@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1992Dec23.085942.29270@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <id.RJ3W.CPI@ferranti.com> <1992Dec28.035257.22889@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:33:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.035257.22889@ucc.su.OZ.AU> maxtal@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (John MAX Skaller) writes:
- > As to how I got stuck in this situation: amoung the
- > reasons might be that the market in Australia in small enough
- > and the number of programmers large enough that there is
- > never enough work similar enough to do what you describe.
-
- My sympathies. That's why I'm living in the U.S. I get *awfully* homesick
- at times, though, and if my wife (who's a U.S. citizen) was interested I'd
- probably be back there now. At least, I think so... but I keep remembering
- that the entire country has an economy about the same size as that of Houston,
- with over four times the population.
-
- It's that old standard-of-living versus quality-of-life thing.
-
- Maybe you could subcontract the data entry part to folks in the ex- Soviet
- Union?
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