From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11390f,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: Alan E & Carmel J Brain Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results Date: 1997/10/15 Message-ID: <34458CE3.507C@dynamite.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 280644786 References: <343fbb5a.0@news.iprolink.ch> <343FD05C.8986A557@flash.net> <34428914.2D71D0F@ibm.net> <01bcd87f$7fefcf00$25a43a91@basil.omroep.nl> Organization: @home Reply-To: aebrain@dynamite.com.au Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-10-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jan Karman wrote: > > David Ness wrote in article <34428914.2D71D0F@ibm.net>... > > How about dropping comp.lang.apl from this thread? It doesn't seem > > to have much to do with APL/J... > > > > Gary L. Scott wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > In general I find it interesting reading other people's opinion on related > subjects. > If somebody likes to compare computer languages by way of a poll then APL > is involved and related comments fit quite well in the news group. If it > wouldn't then we would have APL and the rest of the world. > I repeatingly see people try to preserve other people from doing things > which are really harmless and not disturbing. Is this the "religious > thread" some people talk about? I guess I'm probably the only contributor here whose preferred language is Ada-95, and who has used a lot of APL in the commercial environment. Would you believe an integrated accounting, invoicing and GUI-aided Cost estimation system with multiple workstations and a file server in 1982? Yes 1982. MCM-824 workstations. Every time someone says how terse and powerful C is, I think of APL. But for programs that have to be maintained, and have to be reliable, give me Ada, -83 or -95. For reasons why, see http://www.adahome.com -- aebrain@dynamite.com.au <> <> How doth the little Crocodile | Alan & Carmel Brain| xxxxx Improve his shining tail? | Canberra Australia | xxxxxHxHxxxxxx _MMMMMMMMM_MMMMMMMMM abrain@cs.adfa.oz.au o OO*O^^^^O*OO o oo oo oo oo By pulling MAERKLIN Wagons, in 1/220 Scale