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In article <29250@oasys.dt.navy.mil> roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Roth) writes:

   In comp.lang.fortran, jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (J. Giles) writes:
   >u (Gilbert Chew) writes:
   >|> that the C/C++ newsgroup seems to have about
   >|> 100 times the traffic of the FORTRAN newsgroup!
   >
   >If you actually look at those newsgroups, you will find that most of
   >the traffic consists of trivial questions and long discussions about
   >issues which *should be* well defined and easy to learn/use/describe
   >in any really well designed language.  In other words, it's not clear
   >whether the volume of traffic in those groups is because of greater
   >popularity of the language or because of poorer design.

   A third possibility: the concepts of the language are new, and so the
   terms "easy to learn/use/describe" are not yet applicable. When we all
   understand what virtual methods, templates, overloading, private|protected|
   public, friend, class, etc. mean, *then* the issues will be well defined.

   Me, I'm just lurking on the C++ fora, tryina figure it out...

Actually, the real reason is that FORTRAN programmers are a lot
smarter than C programmers, who often don't even know how to use
modern plumbing or pick out their clothes in the morning. Studies show
that 72% of all C programmers have "severe social, if not sexual,
problems, and few problem solving skills, but an abundance of problem
causing skills." (from "Studies of Programmers: Laguage and Body
Odour, is there a connection?" British Journal of the Social
Sciences).

				Ed


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