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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f7be1,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gidf7be1,public X-Google-Thread: 11390f,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 1164ba,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: fa0ae,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gidfa0ae,public From: Robert Fahey Subject: Re: language wars (results 13 September) last posting Date: 1996/09/16 Message-ID: <639gMMA08YPyEwNe@fbs1.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 181158415 distribution: inet x-nntp-posting-host: fbs1.demon.co.uk references: <51bv60$8d@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> <323993D5.41C6@lanl.gov> organization: Symbiosys Ireland mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.basic,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.rexx,comp.lang.pascal.misc,comp.lang.smalltalk Date: 1996-09-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <51c6df$c23@solutions.solon.com>, Peter Seebach 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 ======================================================================= # Robert Fahey | Reality is for those # # robert@fbs1.demon.co.uk | who can't handle QUAKE # # --------------------------------------------------------------------# # http://KOLA.DCU.IE/mlstrm | ALL DONE. BYE BYE. # =======================================================================