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Subject: Re: Language Wars
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Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 20:44:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 23 20:44:32 1987
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Language Wars
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Reply-To: ugpete@joey.UUCP (Peter Theobald)
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science

..
The following are small pieces of a pretty abusive article:
>(*Picture->SteveMartin)WellExcuuuuuuuseMe, but I think I do.  Not

>the other is *ABSTRACT*! HA! What a >lame<, passive excuse.  Clearly
>view of two languages are similar, but f_cking-A, the machines
>are all the *same* at the core level, so this line of reasoning is
>total b_ullshit. (please excuse my French).

>  dont be such an idiot in defending something that you don't
>  wholistically understand.  I, for one, am getting sick and tired
>  of people who *think* that they see flaws in one thing or another,
>  and go on rambling how they are so right, blah blah blah.
>  Clarify, don't exemplify with rubbish. (Although this letter is
>  pretty heated, the message is intrinsic).
>  Oh, so I am an average programmer? Why thank you for the deaming,
>  *GOD*!

>  Sh_t! FP? Who the h_ll uses FP? Backus' dusty old language is of
>  use in the classroom,(you sound like a comp-prog instructer
>  idealist), but not in the real world. (*Picture->SamKinnisen: 

>  That is were we *live* you big f_cking idiot).  Currently, I don't
>  know anyone who lives in AbstractoLand.(But I'll keep my eyes
>  peeled).

>  Well Doug, I don't know what your Merritts are, but you must be
>  one hell of a pragmatic theoretical theoretician language designer
>  theorist.  

>  Gosh, thanks for pointing out so sharply my shallow, simplistic
>  thinking, and for God's sake, for not getting caught up in what
>  really matters. 

>  John
>  7OHN

John, you really ought to calm down; Maybe take a vacation, or at
least some valiums. Don't get so uptight about which language you
use.
	-a pragmatic theoretical theoretician language designer theorist.



			Peter Theobald

SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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