From: "Nick Payne" <njpayne@pcug.org.au.NOSPAM>
Subject: Re: Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it?
Date: 1997/08/02
Date: 1997-08-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01bc9f26$7d7b56a0$02010101@nicks_pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: JSA.97Jul30150612@alexandria.organon.com
Jon S Anthony <jsa@alexandria.organon.com> wrote in article
> Indeed. In 20 years SICP will still be highly relevant, useful, and
> probably fresh. OO may well have been tossed on the junk heap by
> then, but in any event (IMO) will not be holding center stage.
What makes you think that civilisation will still be here in 20 years? Face
it, what we play around with on computers is just so much irrelevant crap.
Which is not to say that I don't enjoy doing it...I just recognise that the
end of the line is not so far off...
Nick Payne
njpayne@pcug.org.au.NOSPAM
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1997-07-11 0:00 Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it? ivory
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Tom M. Chen
1997-07-11 0:00 ` robinsaj
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Richie Bielak
1997-07-14 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Michael Schuerig
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Mike Stark
1997-07-12 0:00 ` Ian Nelson
[not found] ` <33CA5E3D.475B@edwardjones.com>
1997-07-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <33CB8E75.7CB1@edwardjones.com>
1997-07-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-16 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-07-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-25 0:00 ` Jan Bielawski
1997-07-17 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-07-17 0:00 ` Walt Howard
[not found] ` <33CF6C0E.4983@edwardjones.com>
1997-07-18 0:00 ` Walt Howard
1997-07-18 0:00 ` Henrik Wist
1997-07-18 0:00 ` Technical Professionals and the humnaities ( Was: Re: Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it?) Chris Kuan
1997-07-18 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-07-20 0:00 ` Thaddeus L. Olczyk
1997-07-22 0:00 ` Joseph M. Saur
1997-07-21 0:00 ` Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it? Don Harrison
[not found] ` <01bc94e6$9ced0820$287b7b7a@tlo2>
1997-07-19 0:00 ` Frieder Monninger
1997-07-22 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-07-30 0:00 ` Glenn Williamson
1997-07-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-07-30 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-08-01 0:00 ` I use Eiffel! and other "strange tongues"! Jakob Engblom
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Walt Howard
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Ian Nelson
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-03 0:00 ` Matt Kennel (Remove 'NOSPAM' to reply)
1997-08-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-07 0:00 ` Andrew Semprebon
1997-08-08 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-08-08 0:00 ` Walt Howard
1997-08-11 0:00 ` Jeff Brown
1997-08-13 0:00 ` quadrafeline
1997-08-09 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1997-08-04 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
[not found] ` <dewar.870872376@merv>
1997-08-09 0:00 ` Heribert Slama
[not found] ` <5s8bsh$mo0@alumni.rpi.edu>
1997-08-06 0:00 ` C/C++ is the best teaching language??!? HARRY R. ERWIN
1997-08-08 0:00 ` Tom Valesky
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it? Sean Case
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Nick Payne [this message]
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Walt Howard
1997-07-30 0:00 ` Brian Kimball
1997-07-31 0:00 ` Why I didn't like Eiffel Glenn Williamson
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Ian Nelson
1997-07-31 0:00 ` Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it? Don Harrison
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