From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)
Subject: Re: Latin, Shakespeare, and other irrelevant topics
Date: 29 Jan 2001 18:53:33 GMT
Date: 2001-01-29T18:53:33+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <954e7d$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 95315u$3ca$1@nnrp1.deja.com
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 06:04:48 GMT, Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
>When it comes to programming languages, it is amazing how
>many people dismiss programming languages they know absolutely
>nothing about. How many people do you know who in some sense
>are experts in the PL field who don't know COBOL or VB, but
>are quite sure that both these languages are junk.
And sometimes ... I read an article on the net explaining that assembly
was so great, and it has all the advantages of a high level language
except for portability, and *that you should listen to the people
who program half their code in assembly, because the others don't
know the language*. If you require someone to know a language inside
and out before having an opinion on it, only the people who will have
an opinion on it are those who love it enough to spend all that time
learning it.
--
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org
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2001-01-26 16:31 ` Latin and other irrelevant topics Robert Dewar
2001-01-26 20:24 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-27 5:12 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-27 13:58 ` Pat Rogers
2001-01-27 16:25 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-28 0:09 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-28 0:08 ` Latin, Shakespeare, " Robert Dewar
2001-01-28 3:51 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-28 13:00 ` Pat Rogers
2001-01-29 1:40 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 4:23 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-29 5:29 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 17:32 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-29 17:34 ` Pascal Obry
2001-01-29 6:04 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 17:39 ` Pascal Obry
2001-01-29 18:53 ` David Starner [this message]
2001-01-30 6:15 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-30 15:54 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-30 19:32 ` Martin Dowie
2001-02-02 22:11 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-03 0:17 ` David Starner
2001-01-29 16:16 ` Stephen Leake
2001-01-30 1:21 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-29 23:05 ` kopilovitch
2001-02-02 21:52 ` Latin, Shakespeare, Ecclesiastes " Mark Lundquist
2001-02-03 1:28 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-02-05 16:32 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-05 19:36 ` Al Christians
2001-02-07 18:59 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-08 19:19 ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-08 5:15 ` Latin, Shakespeare, " Buz Cory
2001-02-08 7:38 ` Al Christians
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2001-02-08 16:00 ` Ted Dennison
2001-02-08 19:47 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-01-26 21:06 ` Latin " Lao Xiao Hai
2001-02-08 16:02 Latin, Shakespeare, " Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
2001-02-10 6:47 ` Robert Dewar
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2001-02-08 17:46 ` sk
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2001-02-11 16:55 Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
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