Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!sdcc6!sdcc10!cs161fhn From: cs161fhn@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal vs C vs REAL PROGRAMMERS! Message-ID: <12988@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Date: 5 Oct 90 04:06:05 GMT References: <1752@dinl.mmc.UUCP> <5039@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <1990Oct5.114353.9325@canterbury.ac.nz> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: sdcc10.ucsd.edu In article <1990Oct5.114353.9325@canterbury.ac.nz| phys169@canterbury.ac.nz writes: |In article <5039@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, rhys@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Rhys Weatherley) writes: |> noren@dinl.uucp (Charles Noren) writes: |>>C++ is the language of choice of REAL programmers... |>> Remember, if it can't be done in C++, it isn't worth doing! |>>...just kidding :-) :-) :-) :-) !! |> |> I'll no doubt get flamed for this, but I couldn't resist :-)... |> "Real programmers don't write in PASCAL, BLISS or ADA, or |> any of those pinky computer science languages... | |REAL programmers might write in C(++), but COMPLEX programmers write in |FORTRAN!! :-) REAL programmers may write in C(++) but they think in assembly! -- Dennis Lou | dlou@ucsd.edu | "But Yossarian, what if everyone thought that way?" [backbone]!ucsd!dlou | "Then I'd be crazy to think any other way!"