On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 12:04 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 08:27:05PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 15:23 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 11:46:46PM -0500, J.F.Gratton wrote: > > > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't there a few (well ok, at least one) > > > > OS written in SmallTalk ? I seem to remember that from my computer > > > > science courses. I could be something planted in my memory by some evil > > > > alien that wanted to promote wide-spread use of SmallTalk, tho :) > > > > > > > > > > IMHO, the real test of a HLL for use on big, serious projects is > > > whether or not the compiler for the language is written in the > > > > Why is that The Real Test? What makes self-compilation such a > > big deal? > > > > IMNSHO, it's a bogus test. > > > > I intended that the clause 'for big, serious projects' be understood as > a restrictive. For a speed programming contest in a high school or college > computer club, some other criteria would surely be more important. Some idiot manager decreed that C be used on a large DP project. Something that COBOL was designed to do: read a record, process it, write it out. Because this project used an RDBMS that did not use \0-terminated strings, memcpy() had to be used everywhere. What a royal fscking PITA. Made me really dislike C, and hate the notion that C is a GP language. > In an earlier post to this thread, I expressed the opinion that most > languages have special merit in some domain. That, in effect, almost all > are good for something, and that it is unlikely that there will ever be > a single language that is best in all situations. > > All things in moderation. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. Causation does NOT equal correlation !!!!!!!!
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