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Article #5502Re: Language illiteracy
From: Eugene N. Miya
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1988 05:19
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1988 05:19
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Jeff makes some real points. The joke is really on those who say different
languages are good for different things and then make artificial distinctions
between C and Fortran (I write some "scientific numeric codes" in C). These
languages are quite similar (these people typically have not used LISP,
Prolog, APL, FP, SNOBOL, etc.) A better example is to ask some one to
write text editors or text edit using Fortran (and a lesser extent C).
[Groddy] You would certainly rather use an editor (a tool for the job).
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).
Another gross generalization from
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pioneer!eugene From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Language illiteracy Message-ID: <8088@ames.arpa> Date: 30 Apr 88 05:19:35 GMT References: <786@trwcsed.trwrb.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ames.arpa Reply-To: eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene N. Miya) Distribution: na Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Lines: 17