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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: next "big" language?? (disagree)
Date: 1996/06/09
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Date: 1996-06-09T00:00:00+00:00
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"  Unfortunately, you read in to my statement something that I wasn't
saying.  I indentified the libraries as "C libraries" because that's what
they are.  The point was that libraries that I have the source code and
docs for are much more reusable then libraries (or class hierarchies, or
whatever buzzword you want to use :-) that are engineered to "to
everything" but are transparent to me.
"

No, I read into your statement exactly what you repeated above, and I
repeat my view that it is plain wrong. It is a common attitude of C
programmers, but it simply means that you don't really know the
alternatives well. Report back when you have extensive experience with
a language that supports data abstraction properly!