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: 111d6b,328622178ec8b832 X-Google-Attributes: gid111d6b,public X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,328622178ec8b832 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,8775b19e3c68a5dc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: Peter Hermann Subject: Re: Which language pays most -- C++ vs. Java? Date: 1998/02/12 Message-ID: <6buhqr$p93$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 324400123 References: <6at330$7uj$1@mainsrv.main.nc.us> <6bp6rh$sim$4@peachy.apana.org.au> <6bpoea$rd1$1@bvbsd2.kc.bv.com> <6bsddk$3cp$1@news.nyu.edu> <34E23B11.6AD8@erols.com> <6bti3r$e96$1@client3.news.psi.net> Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980117 (UNIX) (OSF1/V2.0 (alpha)) Xcanpos: shelf.01/199802261301!0029507135 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In comp.lang.ada Frank A. Adrian wrote: > purists *would* prefer that the whole sex-neutral language issue would go > away allowing us to revert to good old masculine singular as a generic ^^^^^^^ BTW, "generic" is one of the most charming and uselful keywords in Ada ;-) > singular term for a person, as with sex the controversy appears to be here > for quite a while longer. The he/she-, his/her-nonsense will stop iin the far future when women will be truly emancipated, IMHO -- Peter Hermann Tel:+49-711-685-3611 Fax:3758 ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de Pfaffenwaldring 27, 70569 Stuttgart Uni Computeranwendungen Team Ada: "C'mon people let the world begin" (Paul McCartney)