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From: rodb@tektronix.UUCP (Rod Belshee )
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Subject: Re: FORTH, the heat is on
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Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 14:35:51 EST
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In article <3381@nsc.UUCP> freak@nsc.UUCP (Curt Mayer) writes:
>let's see... BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, RPG... i see that FORTH has great company.
>not a useful language in the top 5.
>	awwww... go home and control a telescope, will ya?
>	now... Cyber 170 assembler - a real language!
>	curt

	I honestly think that people judge Language depending on thier
	experiance. Unfortunatly, most people's experiance depends on
	what type of programs they write.  I can't see writing a low 
	level device driver in anything else but assembler, but there's
	nobody, gonna get me to write an accounting package in assembler.

	Curt Mayer may, find that type of work enjoyable... If he does
	I have to wonder how may years It's going to take to get his product
	to market, and when it gets there, what kind of reliability it has.

	Any one who says One Language is better than another, either hasn't
	taken the time to learn it, or does not involve himself in the 
	type of programming that best fits that language.

		Curt Jutzi
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