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From: lang0104@itlabs.umn.edu (BRIAN LANGENBERGER)
Subject: Re: ADA SUCKS, C/C++/JAVA RULES!!!!
Date: 1997/10/29
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Date: 1997-10-29T00:00:00+00:00
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John Black (nospam@nospam) wrote:
: You guys say what you want but it's true.  ADA is good for nothing.
: C++, on the other hand, is the only language you need.

If you wanted a progam to clean our your netscape cache every time
you logged-out, would you really write it in C++?  A shell script
seems like a better alternative to me.  What about a simple text
filter that turns newlines to spaces?  Regular C seems just fine
for that task.  

IMO, a real programmer wouldn't ignore potentially
useful programming languages any more than a real carpenter would
try building a house with only a screwdriver.

As long as the job gets done properly, who really cares what
language(s) was/were used?