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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Choice of language for manufacturing Applications
Message-ID: <56325@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 90 17:25:08 GMT
References: <26686@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <26686@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> lozinski@argon.UUCP (Chris Lozinski) writes:
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>
>INTRODUCTION
>
>  After trying Basic, Fortran, Scheme, C, APL, and Objective-C, I 
>became firmly convinced that Objective-C was the best language
>choice for the manufacturing applications that I work with.  
....

Once or twice a month, year after year, comparisons such as this show up
in comp.lang.c++, or other language specific notes strings.  This means that 
people who read comp.lang.c++ for some time have been exposed to tens, if not
hundreds of such comparisons.  Reading, and possibly responding, to such 
postings becomes tedious in the extreme.  Further, in the past, such postings
have resulted in unproductive notes wars, tying up notes bandwidth, and
in some cases preventing some c++ notes users from being able to use 
comp.lang.c++ at all -- because everything they posted caused long-winded
rebuttals from people in other language camps.

I believe people who want to use c++ should have a forum for discussing c++,
free from such hindrances, just as people using other languages [such as Ada]
should be free to discuss their language free from hindrance.

In order that people have a free forum for discussing their own favorite
language, please post inter-language comparisons to neutral forums only.
Please do not trash the note strings of other people's languages, lest 
they trash your language's notes strings.