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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f868292008c639ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "David Botton" Subject: Re: Java vs. Ada - strings (was: C vs. Ada - strings) Date: 2000/06/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 631321079 References: <390F0D93.F835FAD9@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <8en5o9$ihe$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8eonos$e70$1@wanadoo.fr> <1fIU4.4668$Rx3.250161@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com> <3924B730.AFB52C1C@acenet.com.au> <39394E0B.75BD479C@telepath.com> <8hgb3m$bs$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <393BB65D.7891F819@quadruscorp.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Complaints-To: support@usenetserver.com Organization: WebUseNet Corp http://www.usenetserver.com - Home of the fastest NNTP servers on the Net. X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 11:37:51 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-06-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: The cure is to teach people to develop in many different languages and use multiple paradigms from the very start. In a single day I may use three to four different programming languages something that has helped me think beyond the fold of any language and be creative (for application development more important then engineering skill) about how to both design and implement software. David Botton "Marin D. Condic" wrote in message news:393BB65D.7891F819@quadruscorp.com... > Perhaps some doctoral candidate in Psychology could take up this problem > and study it? Why is it that a good Fortran programmer can write Fortran > code no matter what language you give him? Is there a cure for this that > doesn't involve electroshock therapy? :-)