From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fca456da8e6ec463 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-29 12:52:56 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!dvdeug From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Latin, Shakespeare, and other irrelevant topics Date: 29 Jan 2001 18:53:33 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <954e7d$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <94p9fl$a1g$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <94qbb4$bs1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <94rkj1$d4r$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <87k87i2ha7.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <94vnup$kia$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <952hmb$niq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <95315u$3ca$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e5089.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (Linux) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4673 Date: 2001-01-29T18:53:33+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 06:04:48 GMT, Robert Dewar 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