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From: Ian S Nelson <bonovox+@CMU.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 16:13:14 -0500
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.programming: 12-Dec-94 Re: Why don't large
compani.. by Con Bradley@spitfire.pac 
> D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid.com) wrote:
>  
> :Mike Chapman (Mike.Chapman@muc.de) wrote:
> :: The aspect of throw-away functions in APL I can readily confirm.
> :: You could spend a whole day writing a line of code.
> :: Two days later you would not understand it any more.
>  
> :I have always said that I won't use a language of which the proponents put
> :code in front of each other and say "Bet you can't guess what this does!"
>  
> There are competitions for the Worst Book of the year, the Worst Movie 
> (film) of the year etc. and it doesn't prevent you reading a book nor going 
> to the movies(films). I think it's all part of a healthy language culture,

Moreover, I'd have my doubts about a language that claimed you couldn't
make anything obfuscated in it.  I've seen some downright scary things
in Pascal and Smalltalk.  I've seen a few funky things in rexx too. 
Those are about the "simplest" or "easist" to read languages I know.  
--
Ian S. Nelson  <bonovox@cmu.edu>                  finger for PGP key
Carnegie Mellon Math/Computer Science 
My opinions are not the school's, although they should be!