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From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak@uol.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do?
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 23:18:29 -0200
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Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> In article <92vrkj$jh5$1@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>,
>   sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus) wrote:
> > Ted Dennison (dennison@telepath.com) wrote:
> >
> > : best inroads there, but I think a simultanious attack from multiple
> > : fronts might be most effective.
> >
> > Hm, attacking from multiple fronts has usually led
> > to death, starving, or surrender...Not to making someone
> > see ?
> 
> Well, its just a metaphor...

Metaphors explained, another issue (IMHO more relevant) is present
(written) FSF will (for the gory details, pls refer to the Using
Languages Other Than C node in the `info' "standards" document. In a
nutshell they encourage everybody to use C as much as possible (even C++
may be "inconvenient")!

A snippet of (more or less common) wisdom endorsed by FSF:

 "C has one other advantage over C++ and other compiled languages: more
people know C, so more people will find it easy to read and modify the
program if it is written in C."

I _really_ know better as my first advisor suggested I steered away from
a "too specific language" and implemented my MSc project in C/C++. . .

HTH

Cesar