From: dweller@news.imagin.net (David Weller)
Subject: Re: C++ usage (was Re: ada and robots)
Date: 1997/06/26
Date: 1997-06-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ou05a$19jl$1@prime.imagin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 867219575.393164@optional.cts.com
In article <867219575.393164@optional.cts.com>, Will Rose <cwr@cts.com> wrote:
>looking for an enormous success, but seek to avert major failure. Since
>"everybody uses C++" it must be useable, and since "everbody uses C++"
>they won't be blamed for chosing it. So "everybody uses C++".
>
Past: Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM [Fortran|COBOL|etc.]
Present: Nobody ever gets fired for choosing Microsoft [C++|Java|etc.]
The melody's the same,
but the lyrics keep changing :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-06-26 0:00 UTC|newest]
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1997-06-24 0:00 C++ usage (was Re: ada and robots) Jon S Anthony
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-06-27 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-06-25 0:00 ` Will Rose
1997-06-26 0:00 ` David Weller [this message]
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1997-06-19 0:00 ada and robots Jon S Anthony
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-06-23 0:00 ` C++ usage (was Re: ada and robots) Brian Rogoff
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