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From: MFELDMAN@GWUVM.BITNET (mike feldman)
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Subject: my language is better than yours
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Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 17:51:00 EDT
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<flame on>
Having little better to do in August than catch up on my newsgroup reading,
I'm slogging through posting after posting on Ada vs. C, Ada vs. Assembler,
and the like. Seems to me I've seen this before. Every few months one of
these inane macho debates gets going. I'd like to propose that we call an
end to the muscle-flexing and get back to the technical merits (of which
there are many) and demerits (of which there are many) of Ada. All those
participants who are inflexible partisans of other languages are welcome
to join the groups devoted to those languages. How about it?
<flame off>

On another subject: can we get a show of hands on how many of you can claim
having had Grace Hopper as a teacher? I had the great pleasure of taking
a course in '67-68 at the University of Pennsylvania. It was called
"Business Data Processing"; Hopper was working for Univac at the time,
and team-taught the course with a couple of other industry types. Her
lectures were thoroughly enjoyable and liberally laced with war stories
in all senses of the word "war". During the term, Hopper went back into
active service in the Navy; I was in class the night she first wore her
powder-blue, WWII-vintage WAVE uniform, which still fit her. One of the
truly memorable courses in my grad school career.

Michael Feldman, Professor
Dept. of EE&CS
The George Washington University
Washington, DC  20052
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