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Article #903Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming
From: John William Chambless
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:41
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:41
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>>> >>>Thank you very much, but no, C is just fine for me. >>>Really. > >>ADA: Another Dumb Adaptation... > >If we're happy with C (I'm happier with C++, personally), why waste >time and bandwidth bashing someone else's choice? There are people >who love Ada; let them use it. What's the big deal? > I wasn't so much bashing ADA as the idea of a "general purpose" language. The first attempt at a GPL was COBOL, which turned out to be great for some uses, awful for others. It is interesting, BTW, that Grace Murray Hopper, the main creator of COBOL, promoted the idea of having many special purpose languages, rather than some mega-kludge that would almost work for everything. Personally, I agree with you about letting people use what they like. At the same time...C++ seems to have wandered into becoming a general purpose language by default. From the little bit that I've played at C++, it seems to have the potential. -- * Billy Chambless University of Southern Mississippi, USA * chambles@whale.st.usm.edu *
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Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!nntp.msstate.edu!whale.st.usm.edu!chambles From: chambles@whale.st.usm.edu (John William Chambless) Subject: Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming Message-ID: <1992Dec30.014133.13806@ra.msstate.edu> Sender: news@ra.msstate.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: whale.st.usm.edu Organization: University of Southern Mississippi References: <1992Dec29.150728.18195@ra.msstate.edu> <1992Dec29.195705.2444@sequent.com> <1992Dec29.231527.17834@mksol.dseg.ti.com> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:41:33 GMT Lines: 27