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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, SYSADMIN autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5ac12f5a60b1bfe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,87f6968ed41c9df1 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,5ac12f5a60b1bfe X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Multiple reasons for failure of Ariane 5 (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not an exception?) Date: 1996/08/28 Message-ID: <1996Aug28.065715.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 177005681 x-nntp-posting-host: eisner.decus.org references: <4uibvh$1p76@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4vgkt1$s2v@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <4vjea6$gj7@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <4vjv1e$8c6@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <4vrmtp$s80@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <3222E875.2E54@lmtas.lmco.com> x-nntp-posting-user: KILGALLEN x-trace: 841229841/23991 organization: LJK Software newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pl1 Date: 1996-08-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3222E875.2E54@lmtas.lmco.com>, Ken Garlington writes: > Having worked at a user help desk in college, I received many questions > about how to do things in PL/I, even after students had attempted to > find the answer in the IBM PL/I manual. Boy, that PL/I must _really_ > be a terrible language! > > (In other words: this may be one of the top five silliest arguments > regarding the worth of a language ever presented on > comp.lang._anything_!) Sorry, Ken, but "Worth of a Language" is the Olympics of NetNews bandwidth usage, and ability of a particular reader to understand a particular vendor's manual just does not hold a candle to real contenders like exactly which finger muscles must be exercised by a particular poster to enter the assignment operator for a language. Larry Kilgallen