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From: "Joachim Schroeer" <schroeer@amst.co.at>
Subject: Re: An interesting quote on Java and C++
Date: 1997/09/05
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Robert Munck <munck@mindspring.com> wrote in article
<3410a460.158341309@news.mindspring.com>...
> On 3 Sep 1997 15:30:25 GMT, "Joachim Schroeer" <schroeer@amst.co.at>
> wrote:
> 
> >Possibly the Java designers never heard of Ada, ...
> 
> Heck, they never heard of (UCSD) Pascal.
> 
> 
> >What can you expect by languages, that are "invented" by one or two
> >'Gurus'?
> 
> I have trouble with that, given the examples of Pascal,
> Modula, and AED. Maybe you put "Gurus" in quotes to indicate
> an awareness of the difference between the hacker-type Unix/EMACS/C
> expert and the truly wise, deep understanding of a Wirth or Ross.
> There is a lot to be said for the uniformity of a language developed
> by a single person from a single paradigm.
> 
> Bob Munck
> Mill Creek Systems LC
> 
> 

Ok, I agree, Pascal is the second best teaching language.

  J. Schroeer