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Article #905Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming
From: Dik T. Winter
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:31
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:31
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In article <1992Dec30.014133.13806@ra.msstate.edu> chambles@whale.st.usm.edu (John William Chambless) writes: > 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. Ada nor Cobol are "general purpose" languages. Ada is especially targetted at embedded systems. Cobol is a business oriented language (the BO in the acronym gives an hint). -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: dik@cwi.nl
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!mcsun!sun4nl!cwi.nl!dik From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming Message-ID: <8480@charon.cwi.nl> Date: 30 Dec 92 03:31:29 GMT References: <1992Dec29.195705.2444@sequent.com> <1992Dec29.231527.17834@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Dec30.014133.13806@ra.msstate.edu> Sender: news@cwi.nl Followup-To: alt.msdos.programmer Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 10