home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!decwrl!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mucs!m1!bevan
- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Re: Pointers
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.92Nov16163936@beluga.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:39:36 GMT
- References: <1992Nov7.115620.29967@syacus.acus.oz.au>
- <1992Nov10.024021.8724@linus.mitre.org>
- <BEVAN.92Nov11191720@beluga.cs.man.ac.uk> <Bxq1C2.1CC@fiu.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
- Lines: 14
- In-reply-to: feathers@serss0's message of 14 Nov 92 19:40:49 GMT
-
- In article <Bxq1C2.1CC@fiu.edu> feathers@serss0 (Michael Feathers) writes:
- [ nearly all the article because I essentially agree with it ]
-
- Ada, Eiffel, El(Alpha), and Turing are all great for their
- application domains but I think that they are subsets of C and
- C++'s application domains.
-
- If the implication is that C and C++ are the lowest common denominator
- amongst the above, then the statement is obviously true (though I'd
- argue about El(Alpha)). However, (almost) by implication this also
- means there is something "better" than the lowest common denominator
- for the required task. If all you have is a hammer ...?
-
- bevan
-