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: 101b33,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid101b33,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,76126ba4351e4e94 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: roedy@mindprod.com (Roedy Green) Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/22 Message-ID: <36c5e919.131283605@news.bctel.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 435767248 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <36A88CBE.8A659EDA@iai.fzk.de> <36a9c656.829142@news.supernews.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@bctel.net X-Trace: news.bctel.net 917040024 209.53.13.103 (Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:20:24 PDT) Organization: Canadian Mind Products MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:20:24 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java,comp.java.advocacy,comp.lang.java.programmer Date: 1999-01-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 18:48:23 GMT, bob@lintilla.demon.co.uk (Bob Cousins) wrote: >95 % of people who advocate a language haven't actually used other languages >they compare it against, but have only seen briefly or heard about them. In my >experience C and C++ advocates are least likely to know other languages >sufficently well to justify any opinions. I guess you could put it mathematically the degree one one's certainty that a given lanuage is best of all purposes is inversely proportional to the number of languages one has used. It works pretty much the same was as religion. For the JAVA GLOSSARY and the CMP Utilities: -- Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products -30-