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From: portegys@ihlpg.UUCP (Tom Portegys)
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: Multi-language systems
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 10:59:25 EST
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> Some languages match their thought processes, and some don't.
> The amount of worthwhile communication between a FORTRAN
> programmer and a LISP programmer is non-measurable, because
> their fundamental ideas about what programming is are irreconcilable.
>
>					Bill Henneman

Oh come on now.  This is going too far with the language X vs
language Y debate.  Is their a programming language which does not
concern itself with tables, lists, sorting, searching, decisions,
loops, etc?  Yes, I know that in some languages these are called
other things and can be done more simply than in others.  But
they are still there.  And let's not forget that two programmers
who have worked on the same application using different languages
should have *something* in common.  

					Tom Portegys