From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_DATE, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Xref: utzoo comp.object:798 comp.lang.smalltalk:1635 comp.lang.eiffel:596 comp.lang.c++:6195 comp.lang.ada:3190 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcdchg!chinet!patrickd From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree) Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Object-Oriented Development Efforts Message-ID: <1990Jan21.211023.23538@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 21 Jan 90 21:10:23 GMT References: <24386@gryphon.COM> <1364@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM> Reply-To: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree) Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX List-Id: In article <1364@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM> prager@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM (David Prager) writes: >Oh, no, its older engineers! Pretty soon, we're going to stop using >punchcards for our work. We may not program in anything as radical >as C++, but we are looking into OOPS; maybe Fortran++. > Hey, just as long as it isn't object oriented COBOL. I can't tell you how much it scared me to hear that they were actually planning that one. Heck, that's just as bad as Presentation Manager development with COBOL. -- "I place my faith in fools. Self confidence, my friends call it." -Edgar Allen Poe Patrick Deupree -> patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us