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From: Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: Multiple reasons for failure of Ariane 5 (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not
 an exception?)
Date: 1996/08/29
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Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> 
> In article <3222E875.2E54@lmtas.lmco.com>, Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com> 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.

Well, I did say it was in the top five, not the top _one_ ... :)
> 
> Larry Kilgallen

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