Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!motcsd!xdos!doug
From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  YALW (Yet Another Language War)
Summary: Touche'!
Message-ID: <420@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 89 04:04:28 GMT
References: <19053@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <19053@louie.udel.EDU> pfaff@gemini.asd.contel.com (Ray Pfaff - Oakwood 457 934-8162) writes:
>Doug Merrit writes:
>>When a company uses Forth to write software, it means only one thing: they
>>want it finished by tomorrow. This is typical of defense contractors, who
>>have to have their bid beating that deadline...

That should've been "Merritt", if I'd written that, which I didn't.
It was a *response* to my comment about Sun using Forth for boot code.

>You must mean done, not working.  Forth isn't a language to be used to get 
>something working quickly.
>I`ve worked in defense contracting for 10 years and I`ve never heard of Forth
>being  used as anything except a joke.

Oh, great, another language flame. Ok, in that spirit: I guess you
missed the fact that the "Fastest Programmer in the World" contest
was won by two (Amiga JForth) Forth programmers? I don't use Forth
at all myself, but I think it has its own merits. Disadvantages, too,
but what doesn't?

And since you like to start flames by calling some people's (not mine)
favorite language a joke, let me point out that you're throwing rocks
while living in a glass house. More specifically, everybody knows
that defense contractors (A) are constitutionally incapable of being
at all productive, and hence wouldn't know anything about "getting
something working quickly", and (B) defense contracting firms only
hire people who aren't talented enough to get work for a Real Company
that pays Real Wages.

Oh, my, he's turned an incredible shade of purple. Hey, just kidding!
Don't throw rocks at me, some of my best friends work for...Ouch! Quit
that! Just kidding!

I thought that this little bit of sharp "humor" was called for, given
your posting, but if you're still mad, please flame me via *email* so that 
we don't clutter the net with needless flames.
	Doug
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