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=0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,9b19dd383afc6517,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-21 22:04:39 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!malgudi.oar.net!infinet!nitelog!michael.hagerty Distribution: world Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: MARKETING ADA From: michael.hagerty@nitelog.com (Michael Hagerty) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Dec 94 23:51:00 -0800 Organization: Nitelog BBS - Monterey, CA - 408-655-1096 Date: 1994-12-20T23:51:00-08:00 List-Id: 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 PGP Key available on popular servers PGP Fingerprint = 56 12 CF A9 0E 53 A4 C4 49 F2 AF E7 F1 D3 47 5F --- � MR/2 #63 � FS-5 plane crashes; SimCity residents killed