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=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: patrick@broadvision.com (Patrick Horgan) Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?] Date: 1996/08/06 Message-ID: <4u627t$ej@ns.broadvision.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 172457029 references: organization: The quite unorganized Patrick reply-to: patrick@broadvision.com newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Stefan 'Stetson' Skoglund writes: > How do we write complex software such as air-traffic control > systems, engine control systems, big-time banking systems > and so on without abstracting away from the computer hardware ? > > How do we design such beasts ?? Why? Is someone asking you to do this? I think the questions were in the wrong order anyway...I'd hope that you at least had some idea of the high level systems before you started writing software. In this whole discussion I haven't seen anyone state nor imply that learning high-level abstractions wasn't required. -- Patrick J. Horgan patrick@broadvision.com Have horse will ride. Opinions mine, not my employer's except by most bizarre coincidence.