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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java
Date: 1999/01/18
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In article <77vhjf$nn9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dennison@telepath.com writes:
> In article <77ommt$9bo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
>   robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> 
>> any software production at all. Any programmer who is
>> uncomfortable with following an established set of
>> conventions is also out of control and should be got
>> rid of. The industry simply cannot afford such a level
>> of incompetence.
> 
> Spoken like a man who gets to write the standards... :-)

If by "standards" you mean the ACT shop standards, Robert Dewar
has specified that they take a vote when resolving religious
issues (possibly not on more serious issues like whether to
engage in backups of the machines, whether to put the comments
in English or Esperanto, etc.)

Larry Kilgallen