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In article <8088@ames.arpa> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
>A better example is to ask some one to
>write text editors or text edit using Fortran (and a lesser extent C).

I don't think you could pay me enough to do this in FORTRAN!! :-)

>[Groddy] You would certainly rather use an editor (a tool for the job).

And writing a text editor in FORTRAN instead of C is using the wrong tool
for the job (in my humble opinion, of course)!

>The problem is that people (myself when I was younger) don't see editing
>as a language, drawing as a language, mouse movements as a language (now I see).

These are not (or should not) be languages (in the sense that you have to
program in them).  Stuff like mouse movements are better characterized by
making them a class in an object-oriented language.  They are tools that
should be at your disposal, not a language in and of itself.
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