Re: chief programmer team organizations was (c++ vs ada results)

[seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman)]

In article <73164@microsoft.UUCP> jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) writes:
>Please use comp.object or some other neutral forum to "discuss" the
>"relative advantages" of various programming languages.

Amen!
 
>Please leave individual language forums such as comp.lang.c++ or
>comp.lang.ada open for people to ask questions about their individual
>languages and hopefully receive answers.

Thank you for expressing this so well; I hope it works this time.
 
>These comparisons seem to do nothing to convince programmers to switch
>from their favorite language to another one.  Please then, can we
>try to leave the individual language forums open to discuss the
>individual languages, so that programmers programming in their favorite
>languages can at least be as informed and intelligent about that
>language as possible?


Every so often a little bit of comparative languages is good, for example to
explain a bit of Ada in terms of someone else's experience in Pascal, say
(as a comparative languages teacher I have foubd this usually to be helpful).
But the endless comparisons alternating with flames and sometimes degenerating
to ad hominem attacks gets to be boring and distasteful. I'll try to do
my part on this. Thanks again for posting it.

Mike
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