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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Desirability of C++
Date: 2000/05/01
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In article <390D62E0.366B54CC@maths.unine.ch>,
  Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch> wrote:
> Pascal Obry:
>
> * Tradition: how many "What's this... ? Ada ?" "Why not just program
> in Fortran (C, COBOL,...) like your grandfather did ?" "Is there a

:-)

Computer Science is a very young discipline, perhaps 50 years old or so.
So using 30 year old tools and techniques is the programming equivalent
of Amish farming. Thus I have a general rule that I avoid doing anything
serious with programming languages older than I am.

For me that allows me C (barely), but current undergrads have no such
excuse. But I guess for current undergrads, that might throw out Ada too.

--
T.E.D.

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