Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!inesc!unl!unl!jpc From: jpc@fct.unl.pt (Jose Pina Coelho) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Language Wars Message-ID: Date: 28 May 91 11:56:46 GMT References: <1991May15.112823.22229@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991May19.123429.19440@sugar.hackercorp.com> <14750@ucrmath.ucr.edu> <8_4Ha8!f@cs.psu.edu> Sender: news@fct.unl.pt (USENET News System) Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- Lisbon, Portugal Lines: 48 In-Reply-To: melling@cs.psu.edu's message of 28 May 91 00:24:59 GMT In article <8_4Ha8!f@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > If assembler is so great, why don't we just stick with the 68K series > forever? Moto. will surely oblige us. Because, that would kill competition, and once competition is dead motorola will stop innovation. > ALWAYS take your vitamins and get plenty of sleep. Get real. I'll > name the language and you name the "right" job. Can you smell the smoke comming ? :-) C - Operating systems, small programs. Ada - Can this be used ? I remmember fifteen lines to say hello world. C++ - For situations that call for C's advantages but have good separation between object classes. Smalltalk - For fast prototyping of applications, but then it should generate RTL and be fed into the GNU compiler. Rexx - Like common shell scripts across machines. Lisp - American AI Prolog - European AI (Actualy we need a mix of both, but try tell that to the AI people on both sides of the pond) AWK(nawk) - Processing text files (databases). Generaly complemented with sed and m4. Cobol - Shoot the programmers. Fortran - Shoot the grannys. Assembler - Breaking games protections, patching OS holes (when you don't have the OS source) the code where the program spends 99% of the time. > "My computer is better than your computer." -- Amiga and NeXT junkies. > > But it is :-). I say: "ALWAYS use the right computer for the job." > :-) I'm under the impression that you will do anything to avoid an > argument. Sorry pal, if you read the net, you are required to think a > little. Besides, it's a fellony to duck a flame war in comp.sys.amiga.advocacy :-) -- Jose Pedro T. Pina Coelho | BITNET/Internet: jpc@fct.unl.pt Rua Jau N 1, 2 Dto | UUCP: ...!mcsun!unl!jpc 1300 Lisboa, PORTUGAL | Home phone: (+351) (1) 640767 - If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister ?