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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Portability of Arithmetic (was: Java vs Ada 95)
Date: 1996/10/18
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Date: 1996-10-18T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <1996Oct17.131934.1@eisner>,
Larry Kilgallen <kilgallen@eisner.decus.org> wrote:
>No, I don't think it is better for them to learn in an environment
>like Java where everything is always the same, because life is not
>that way.

By this argument, anything portable about any language is a Bad Thing.
I don't buy this "school of hard knocks" idea.

- Bob