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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Judah Diament Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/17 Message-ID: <36A221C9.4C5FC776@cs.nyu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 433692929 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369DDDC3.FDE09999@sea.ericsson.se> <369e309a.32671759@news.demon.co.uk> <369F1D39.64A65BC1@sea.ericsson.se> <369f81a9.31040093@news.demon.co.uk> <77ommt$9bo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <77q57g$dpu$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36A12D50.9604A0B0@cs.nyu.edu> <77rjbk$7d0@drn.newsguy.com> To: bill@north.nospam.com.net X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.nyu.edu X-Trace: news.nyu.edu 916595056 28001 (None) 128.122.175.107 Organization: New York University Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Huh!?!? I was complimeting Dr. Dewar's statement, not attacking it. I thought he had an excellent point when saying that it's silly how some people stubbornly refuse to conform to shop standards because of inconsequential personal preferences on an issue as tiny as where I put my brackets. I certainly am not grinding an axe, quite the opposite - because I attended a class taught by Dr. Dewar 2 years ago ( he is a tenured professor at NYU's Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences and has been for a couple of decades) I have seen that he has a clear and thorough understanding of compilers and programming languages and is someone to be taken quite seriously on these issues. It escapes me how you read my last message as attacking Dr. Dewar. It's kind of stupid to entertain the notion of messing with someone who has been programming professionally, and doing a good job of it, since before you were born. -Judah bill@north.nospam.com.net wrote: > > Wow! what a strong statment ! and comming from someone from the computer > science department of New York university where Dewar PhD works (worked?) too! > makes one wonder if someone has a axe to grind against some other person? > > Bill. >