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From: kaz@helios.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku)
Subject: Re: ADA and Pascal SUCK, C,C++,
 and Java are the only languages you need!!
Date: 1997/11/06
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In article <slrn66258f.91f.jstevens@samoyed.ftc.nrcs.usda.gov>,
John Stevens <jstevens@samoyed.ftc.nrcs.usda.gov> wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:11:26 -0600, Scott Baierl <baierls@schneider.com> wrote:
>>
>>Smart programmers spend their time learning programming languages that help
>>them solve the real-world problems in their particular application domain.
>
>Umm. . . no.  Smart programmers live, learn, and grow up to be sofware
>engineers.  Software engineers live, learn, and grow up to be system
>architects.  System architects live, learn, and grow up to be Computer
>Scientists.

And computer scientists have children who become hackers... :)

>Which is why arguing about which language is best is probably outside
>the scope of most of our area of responsibility.  Most of us here are
>not architects, or even engineers.

Which is why we see arguments like ``but that doesn't matter because I
would never make that sort of error in my program''. :)
-- 
"In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be
indented six feet downward and covered with dirt."
	-- Blair P. Houghton