From: michael.hagerty@nitelog.com (Michael Hagerty)
Subject: RE: MARKETING ADA
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 94 23:51:00 -0800
Date: 1994-12-20T23:51:00-08:00 [thread overview]
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On 12-19-94, Mitch Gart posted to All:
MG> There's a strain of programming that takes attitudes like:
MG> - I'd rather write it myself than get it from a subroutine library
> or a package written by someone else
MG> - I'd rather invent the algorithms myself than read about them
> in a book or an article
MG> - I'd rather write in a low level language, to get ultimate
> control and efficiency
And then there are those of us who would answer a most emphatic "NOT!" to
each of the above... Although I think the third one can be accomplished
as well in Ada as the assembler or C I have seen most programmers write.
MG> .. that sort of thing. This could be called "macho programming"
> even though it really has nothing to do with the sex of the person
> who is doing it.
I rather think of it as "coneheaded programming" consuming mass quantities
of time...
MG> A few years ago, around the time of "real men don't eat quiche"
> somebody said "real programmers use macro assembler on MVS".
Ahhhh, Ed Post's excellent article on why "Real Men Don't Use Pascal"...
and I remember working on a rather large and complicated payroll program
written in FORTRAN-66...
Regards, Mikey
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1994-12-13 14:19 Marketing Ada CONDIC
1994-12-14 2:09 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-11 19:56 tmoran
1994-12-13 3:18 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-13 5:35 ` Carlos Perez
1994-12-14 1:53 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-16 14:54 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-18 15:17 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-19 2:14 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-19 16:02 ` Mitch Gart
1993-03-04 23:48 Mike Feldman, meet Archie enterpoop.mit.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!bogus.sura.net!jhunix.hcf.jh
1993-03-05 14:45 ` Marketing Ada Mark A. Breland
1993-03-05 16:30 ` Gregory Aharonian
1993-03-09 3:34 ` Thomas N Erickson
1993-03-09 4:24 ` Michael Feldman
1993-03-11 22:14 ` Michael Feldman
1993-03-12 14:02 ` Mark A. Breland
1993-03-12 23:48 ` Michael Feldman
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