Xref: utzoo news.groups:18958 comp.lang.misc:4593 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Language wars (was Re: 48 forgeries) Keywords: modula-2 is better than ada or C Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 90 17:20:15 GMT References: <1990Mar19.015850.6433@alembic.acs.com> <1094@athen.sinix.UUCP> <16594@ethz-inf.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Followup-To: comp.lang.misc Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 9 I apologise. I post one sarcastic comment about language wars and someone takes me up on it. I should have directed followups elsewhere but it never occurred to me that this would happen... > C is just too damn "hacky." [etc, etc, etc...] Language wars are a more honorable pursuit than forgeries or personality flames, but they don't belong in news.groups. Even if you *are* posting from ETHZ. -- _--_|\ `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ 'U` \_.--._/ v