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: 103376,f868292008c639ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: Java vs. Ada - strings (was: C vs. Ada - strings) Date: 2000/06/05 Message-ID: <393BE6D4.E45AE57B@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 631373490 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <390F0D93.F835FAD9@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <8en5o9$ihe$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8eonos$e70$1@wanadoo.fr> <1fIU4.4668$Rx3.250161@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com> <3924B730.AFB52C1C@acenet.com.au> <39394E0B.75BD479C@telepath.com> <8hgb3m$bs$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <393BB65D.7891F819@quadruscorp.com> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 5 Jun 2000 17:47:45 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-06-05T17:47:45+00:00 List-Id: David Botton wrote: > > The cure is to teach people to develop in many different languages and use > multiple paradigms from the very start. > Certainly, a broader experience base is going to be helpful. I think there may still be some amount of residual "human nature" though which makes the problem tough to beat. We get used to doing things a certain way and even when we know better, we try to make everything conform to that with which we are comfortable. If you're very comfortable with a hammer, you try to make everything into a nail? BTW: I don't think this is unique to our profession. I've dealt with medical doctors who can have exactly the same sort of myopia - intelligent and well trained as they may be. I'm sure it can be found wherever we'd care to look. MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Some people think programming Windows is like nailing jello to the ceiling... easy with the right kind of nails." -- Ivor Horton - Beginning Visual C++ 6 ======================================================================