From: doylep@eecg.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle)
Subject: Re: Best language for low IQ programmers?
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 21:46:20 GMT
Date: 2001-11-08T21:46:20+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <GMI4H8.99y@ecf.utoronto.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3BEA7120.8A979611@gperkins.co.uk
In article <3BEA7120.8A979611@gperkins.co.uk>,
Graham Perkins <gperkins@gperkins.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Now you say four false things (not controversial, actually
>FALSE):
>
> Garbage collection is inefficient
> Eiffel is front end for C++
> Programmer has to know C++ to use Eiffel
> Eiffel programmer has to call C++ for anything useful like OS calls
>
>which makes us think YOU are a troll. Please, if you have some
>sensible questions to ask, about Eiffel and other technologies,
>don't spoil it by making assertions from a position of ignorance.
Ah, Graham. I had a whole response to this all typed up, and then
I realized that this is exactly the purpose of a troll, so I
deleted it. :-)
I must say, though, that this fellow's troll is MUCH better than
the original one. The original one seemed like a joke to me the
first moment I read it.
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Patrick Doyle
doylep@eecg.toronto.edu
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2001-11-08 3:06 Best language for low IQ programmers? jmburton
2001-11-08 8:06 ` Eirik Mangseth
2001-11-08 21:53 ` Jim Cochrane
2001-11-08 11:48 ` Graham Perkins
2001-11-08 21:46 ` Patrick Doyle [this message]
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2001-11-06 19:01 ` Lou Moran
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2001-11-08 11:38 ` IsraelRT
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2001-11-16 5:55 ` no
2001-11-16 15:04 ` Greg Comeau
2001-11-05 20:38 ` arnet
2001-11-05 21:40 ` Jeff Connelly
2001-11-06 1:13 ` Logan Shaw
2001-11-05 20:56 ` Mario Grgic
2001-11-05 23:39 ` James Taylor
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2001-12-14 18:02 ` Ilya Sterin
2001-12-14 19:42 ` Wes Groleau
2001-12-14 20:02 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-14 20:24 ` James Rogers
2001-12-16 4:33 ` Darren New
2001-12-14 20:23 ` James Rogers
2001-12-15 6:57 ` Marshall Spight
2001-12-17 8:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-12-18 13:44 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-12-18 14:25 ` Josef Möllers
2001-12-18 17:24 ` Darren New
2001-12-18 19:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-12-23 0:17 ` Lyndon
2001-12-24 2:19 ` Mark Henri
2001-11-05 20:56 ` Bruce Lewis
2001-11-05 21:04 ` Tim Hammerquist
2001-11-05 21:31 ` Alain D
2001-11-05 21:36 ` Jeff Connelly
2001-11-05 21:53 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-09 22:22 ` nofreejack
2001-11-05 21:48 ` Charles Krug
2001-11-05 23:09 ` Richard Heathfield
2001-11-06 0:20 ` Thaddeus L Olczyk
2001-11-08 11:41 ` IsraelRT
2001-11-05 23:37 ` Patrick Doyle
2001-11-06 0:17 ` Thaddeus L Olczyk
2001-11-06 0:23 ` Thaddeus L Olczyk
2001-11-06 0:34 ` TheStonge
2001-11-06 0:46 ` Adrian Hoe
2001-11-06 7:11 ` Thaddeus L Olczyk
2001-11-06 2:05 ` Tim Hammerquist
2001-11-06 12:37 ` Kenny Chaffin
2001-11-06 15:29 ` karsten v.
2001-11-06 18:34 ` Tim Hammerquist
2001-11-08 11:42 ` IsraelRT
2001-11-06 12:49 ` peter
2001-11-06 16:18 ` Doug
2001-11-06 17:25 ` Gary Labowitz
2001-11-06 21:00 ` James Khan
2001-11-06 22:27 ` arnet
2001-11-06 22:58 ` Scott Peshak
2001-11-07 14:16 ` Ulrich Windl
2001-11-07 22:27 ` dmason
2001-11-08 5:50 ` Ken Stauffer
2001-11-08 19:07 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-09 22:26 ` nofreejack
2001-11-16 14:23 ` nospam
2001-11-17 2:13 ` Kirsten Bayes
2001-11-17 15:05 ` Andrzej Jan Taramina
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2001-11-24 13:56 ` Patrick Doyle
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