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From: gdemont@my-deja.com
Subject: Re: Here we go again...
Date: 2000/11/11
Date: 2000-11-11T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8uk1pv$aer$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A0CF44D.C167D209@online.no

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> Strangely enough my impression of him is that he thinks that terseness
> is the same as efficiency.

In fact, did this guy really _program_ something ?

> It is impossible to convince him that the wordiness of ada boost
> productivity. Perhaps this has something to do with his - in my not very
> humble opinion- rather simplistic political beliefs.

Maybe he is just too old. I'm not age-racist, but with computing
persons suddenly block, that for the rest of their life. Some "halt"
instruction happened with him between a PDP-10 and a dusty C or COBOL
compiler...
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-11  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-10  2:16 Here we go again dale
2000-11-09  0:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-11-10  0:00   ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-10  3:50   ` dale
2000-11-10  0:00     ` Pat Rogers
2000-11-10  0:00       ` Dale Stanbrough
     [not found] ` <vhi4s1fihvu.fsf@grotte.ifi.uio.no>
2000-11-11  0:57   ` Juergen Pfeifer
2000-11-12  0:00     ` Laurent Guerby
2000-11-11  7:25   ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-11-11  0:00     ` gdemont [this message]
2000-11-12  0:00       ` Robert Love
2000-11-12  0:00       ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-11-11  0:00     ` Marin David Condic
2000-11-21  7:13 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2000-11-21  0:00   ` Tucker Taft
2000-11-21  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-21  0:00     ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2000-11-22  5:07       ` Robert Dewar
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