Re: Socioeconomics, Ada, C++

[g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu (George C. Harrison, Norfolk State University)]

In article <1991May19.180238.12129@netcom.COM>, jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter) writes:
>>I hate to have to point out anything so obvious...  Perhaps in
>>automobiles, and various other areas of life Europe is other than
>>small-time, but computer science.....   I'm afraid you've hit the nail
>>straight on the head.  Think of it this way:  European "computer
>>science" gave us Ada.  Enough said.
                      .
                      .and Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon.  The 'ol USofA 
gave use FORTRAN, BASICK, COBOLT, and C.

> 
> I had already established in a previous posting that Ted Holden
> is a staggeringly ignorant person, but now it turns out he is also
> an ethnocentric xenophobe as well. Enough said.
> -- 

Jim, maybe Ted's pulling our leg.  That really is the only acceptable answer. 
After all he know how to type.

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