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=0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PLING_QUERY,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" Subject: Re: How big is an int? (was: Yet another stupid language war (was: ... the only languages you need!!)) Date: 1997/11/19 Message-ID: <3473451A.60C4@gsg.eds.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 290807587 References: <879381995snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <879433137snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <64fbr2$76k$1@route1.mdrf.france3.fr> <879901314snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <3473B088.3227@dynamite.com.au> Reply-To: nospam@gsg.eds.com Organization: EDS MS Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Alan E & Carmel J Brain wrote: > > Many thanks to the posters on this thread. Ada programmers often feel, > if not persecuted, then uncomfortably isolated by the mainstream. Oddly enough, Ada isn't even my language of choice. But it has a lot going for it, and I was raised to "Tell the truth and shame the Devil". Hell, I've even stuck up for C when the facts warranted it! > It's issues like this that make me feel thankful that I'm restricted to > only programming in C or C++. I've got a problem with that. The more languages you know, the better you understand the issues. With only C and C++, your experience is way to narrow to appreciate other languages. Mind you, I don't expect that you will like all of the other languages, but each has something to teach you. Even (bletch) COBOL. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Senior Software SE The values in from and reply-to are for the benefit of spammers: reply to domain eds.com, user msustys1.smetz or to domain gsg.eds.com, user smetz. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org