Re: I use Eiffel! and other "strange tongues"!

["W. Wesley Groleau x4923" <wwgrol@pseserv3.fw.hac.com>]

>         I think [OOP] is the terminal paradigm. It is like the wheel.
> We're there. We've arrived at the proper [way to build software].
> We may make some minor adjustments in the future but the paradigm
> itself will be our [computing core] for hundreds, if not thousands
> of years. But that's just speculation of course.

Except for the words in brackets, people have said this for hundreds,
if not thousands, of years.

>         C and C++ are not high-fashion languages. C has had constant
> growth since it's creation. C++ looks to be the spearhead that is
> getting OOP accepted universally, despite it's problems. Sending
> someone out into the real world knowing Pascal instead of C is
> like sending a soldier into a battlefield with a BB Gun while
> everyone else has an M16.

More like sending a soldier out with hand-grenades while everyone 
else has 50-gallon drums of nitroglycerine or picric acid.  :-)

>         What I'm saying is, you can write a Prolog interpreter, a
> Smalltalk interpreter, a Fortan Compiler etc etc etc in C! But
> you can't do the reverse. This is because these higher level
> languages do not let you do certain things which are part and
> parcel of the very woop and warf of computer programming.

First you say OOP is the ultimate, and then you seem to say
the "woop and warf" [sic] are only in C ?  Do you need directions?
An excellent Ada compiler has been written in Ada.  A good (hearsay)
COBOL compiler has been written in COBOL.  Most FORTH systems are
written in FORTH.  What does that do to your argument?
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