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: f849b,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 101b33,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid101b33,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: drc@adni.net (David R. Conrad) Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/15 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 432803428 Cache-Post-Path: nntp.adni.net!drc@adn-cust97.advdata.net References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369CBD05.79D0@telusplanet.net> <369CBDA8.D3673C68@pwfl.com> Organization: Advanced Data Net (Nationwide Internet Access) - 1-877-CALL-ADN X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.2.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.4 (UNIX) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:59:57 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java,comp.java.advocacy,comp.realtime,comp.arch.embedded,comp.object,comp.lang.java.programmer Date: 1999-01-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:37:12 -0500, Marin David Condic wrote: >A good Fortran programmer can write Fortran code no matter what language >you give him. :-) I was employed writing Turbo Pascal in the late eighties, and then on another project I had to learn COBOL to maintain some accounting code, and we had a guy who was an old hand at COBOL working with us. He kept bugging me to teach him some Pascal, and finally I did. After he got to know Turbo Pascal somewhat, he said, "Oh, now I understand why your COBOL code is so unusual -- you're writing Pascal in COBOL!" I considered it one of the greatest compliments I've ever gotten as a programmer that some sense of structured programming was coming through, even when I was writing COBOL. (Luckily, I haven't had anything to do with COBOL since then.) >Herman wrote: >> Java, C++, C, Ada, Pascal, PL1, PL/M... >> it is all Algol to me! -- David R. Conrad This is why I love America -- that any kid can dream "I'm going to get naked with the President" ... and that dream can actually come true. What a great country! -- Michael Moore