From: Robert Fahey <RFahey@fbs1.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: language wars (results 13 September) last posting
Date: 1996/09/16
Date: 1996-09-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <639gMMA08YPyEwNe@fbs1.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 323993D5.41C6@lanl.gov
In article <51c6df$c23@solutions.solon.com>, Peter Seebach
<seebs@solutions.solon.com> writes
>Maybe it's about time for comp.lang.advocacy?
Quite possibly. Ah, it'd be fun to flame a few BASIC and C++ people from
time to time - all my mates use Pascal and think it is great anyway
(most of em migrated from C++) so there is no scope for a good argument
;-)
>>4. The disallowal of first languages implies, at least in the US,
>>reduced votes for Basic, Pascal, C, and Fortran which may bias results
>>in Ada's favor.
Exactly my view. After all, who uses Ada seriously? Anyone? Okay, the
odd conservationist (odd being the meaningful word) but apart from that?
>>5. There is no way to weight the voter's experience with a variety of
>>languages.
>
>Certainly. Would my failure to rank Ada be because it's not a language I
>*would* like, or because GNAT doesn't support NetBSD/68k yet?
Similarly, did I not rank Modula-2 because I think its crap or because I
have only used it briefly?
>I mean, all we can really say is the only reason that TECO macros weren't the
>winner is that no one has any respect for *REAL* programming any more.
Hah, _real_ programming? Well, for plain stupid programming Forth takes
first prize, but for _real_ programming try doing a 3D game/demo in pure
80x86 asm!
>
>-s
Ciao,
Robert
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1996-09-13 0:00 language wars (results 13 September) last posting Roy Gardiner
1996-09-13 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-09-13 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Robert Fahey [this message]
1996-09-18 0:00 ` James Giles
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Luke Chao
1996-09-18 0:00 ` James Giles
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Daniel J. Long
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Art Schwarz
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Matthew D. Healy
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Randy MacDonald
1996-10-03 0:00 ` galina.kasminskaya
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Dave Tholen
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Paul Gilmartin
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-20 0:00 ` John Girash
1996-09-20 0:00 ` John Girash
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Clinton Pierce
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Russell Mosemann
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Barrie Walker
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Jim Shapiro
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself Lee Crites
1996-09-25 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
[not found] ` <52qpqt$1b3l@ilx018.iil.intel.com>
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Glen Clark
1996-09-26 0:00 ` John Winters
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Daan Sandee
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Jeff Drummond
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Ray Dunn
1996-09-27 0:00 ` CHI Research, Inc.
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-28 0:00 ` John Winters
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Mike McCarty
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
[not found] ` <199609302101.JAA04610@kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Russell Mosemann
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Matthew D. Healy
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Paul Gilmartin
1996-09-22 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Randy MacDonald
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-09-25 0:00 ` John Harper
1996-09-25 0:00 ` jupiter
1996-09-24 0:00 ` language wars (results 13 September) last posting Andrew Gierth
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Art Schwarz
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