From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Universities in the US
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 19:29:04 GMT
Date: 2001-05-15T19:29:04+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4sfM6.2762$6j3.243345@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
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In article <9drk4t$hjk$1@news3.cadvision.com>, Wade Humeniuk says...
>"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
>news:W8cM6.2413$6j3.206605@www.newsranger.com...
>> Despite all the heat here about the "best" language, the really important
>thing
>> is that you get exposed to *multiple* languages during your time as a
>student.
>> Languages come and go.
>
>Lisp has just come, it has not gone yet. Name a language that has gone.
That's a good point. Perhaps it would have been more accurate to say "languages
come", but then it wouldn't have been the old saying that we all understand.
Please pardon my minor inaccuracy in the service of making a point about the
relative importance of any one language.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-15 14:46 Universities in the US Faisal Halim
2001-05-15 15:22 ` Barry Margolin
2001-05-15 15:43 ` Ted Dennison
2001-05-15 16:04 ` Wade Humeniuk
2001-05-15 17:50 ` Kevin Rigotti
2001-05-15 18:33 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-15 18:52 ` James Hague
2001-05-15 19:51 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-15 21:24 ` Lieven Marchand
2001-05-16 17:00 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-16 19:01 ` Universities in the US - Garbage Collector for GNAT? Matthias Kretschmer
2001-05-16 19:35 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-16 20:12 ` Matthias Kretschmer
2001-05-16 14:11 ` Universities in the US Evan Prodromou
2001-05-15 19:29 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-05-16 22:19 ` David Thornley
2001-05-15 16:12 ` Gary Scott
2001-05-15 20:10 ` Eric de Groot
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