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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 <lykP4.4078$ln5.88486@news.swbell.net>,
  "Pat Rogers" <progers@NOclasswideSPAM.com> wrote:
> they have an agenda to push.  By that standard it is also a "fact"
> that C++ is dead and Java has taken over.  Likewise it is "fact" that
> nobody programs in COBOL or FORTRAN any more.

By that standard, its also a fact that all languages except Fortran and
C++ are dead, and C++ is just for limited uses. That's the way things
are on the commercial side of my employer, and apparently I get to use
any random set of personal observations I want to craft "facts". :-)

I think it is truly a fact that there is a much wider panoply of tools
in use than many folks like to admit. Perhaps there's some inborn desire
for conformity that causes people to so desperatly want to see
consistency where in there is none. Or perhaps its just the
pattern-matching nature of our brains.

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T.E.D.

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