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- From: nevin@apple.com (Nevin ":-]" Liber)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
- Message-ID: <nevin-150992152943@badenov.apple.com>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 22:36:06 GMT
- References: <17opl4INN5gb@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> <17ov89INNdls@network.ucsd.edu>
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- In article <17ov89INNdls@network.ucsd.edu>, mbk@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt
- Kennel) wrote:
- >After seeing Sather, I can't understand how C++ could be so
- > needlessly complicated. I'm just about ready to switch, but I worry about
- > not having my code usable by anybody else.
-
- In other words, even when we come up with what you like in a language, you
- STILL won't use it because nobody else is risking using it either. Why
- should we bother coming up with systems that no one will use?
-
- > 2) Garbage collection.
-
- I really can't see someone who wants to be able to microoptimise their code
- be willing to pay the penalty for garbage collection.
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- NEVIN ":-)" LIBER, RISC Porting Specialist/Blue Meanie, Mac System Software
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