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From: jstevens@samoyed.ftc.nrcs.usda.gov (John Stevens)
Subject: Re: ADA SUCKS, C/C++/JAVA RULES!!!!
Date: 1997/11/06
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On Sat, 01 Nov 1997 12:51:53 -0600, Charles R. Lyttle <lyttlec@flash.net> wrote:
>NOSPAM_f93-eaa@sm.luth.se wrote:
>[nsippage]
>
>If low up-front cost is the ruling factor, then
>C++ under some MS operating system is about the only thing available.

I beg to differ.  C/C++ on Linux/FreeBSD/NetBSD is a much better choice,
especially is low up-front cost is the ruling factor. . . ;->

>Be
>flexible, learn more than one language, and do software engineering instead of
>"programming".

Sort of like what I tell my students: learning C++ doesn't make you an
object oriented programmer.  Learning the OOP paradigm, however, will
make it childishly simple to write in whatever OOPL you choose for the
current project.  It becomes a simple matter of translation from design to
language specific syntax, at that point.

John S.