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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: The stupidity of all the Ariane 5 analysts.
Date: 1997/08/04
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In article <dewar.870362889@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> You can say the same thing about operating systems of course, for example
> anyone who cannot point out the flaws in XXX, simply indicates that they
> do not know the system very well, or that they lack the experience to
> know that improvements are possible
> 
> (XXX = NT, Unix, Win95, OS/2, VMS etc etc)

I think blindness to flaws has more to do with inexperience in
_other_ environments than in the one under discussion.

If my experience is limited to languages without uplevel addressing
(e.g., Bliss, C) I will not see that as a shortcoming the way I
would if I had used other languages (Ada, Pascal).

Larry Kilgallen