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From: jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter)
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Subject: Re: C++ and waitresses (long)
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Date: 6 Jun 91 00:41:07 GMT
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>Has anybody else noticed the ever-so-slight change in Jim Showalter's
>nifty signature ?

Hmmmm--must be a typo... Actually, yes, it's true--I added C++ to
the list.

Part of this is due to an economic pragmatism that seems to be afflicting
me now that I don't have a steady paycheck (a reporter once asked Willy
Sutton, the bank robber, why he robbed banks, to which Willy Sutton
replied "Because that's where they keep the money."...I feel somewhat like
this when it comes to C++).

A far more significant reason for the change, however, is that the stuff
I know about engineering large complex systems is pretty much language
independent, so why limit myself to Ada shops? If Ada shops need help with
their software engineering process, it's a sure bet that C++ shops do too.

Note that this in no way indicates a change to my bedrock conviction that
Ada is the superior technical choice between the two languages for engineering
large complex systems.
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