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From: lc@pbhyd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re:  Wrong group, guys!
Message-ID: <906@pbhyd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-May-87 18:00:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: pbhyd.906
Posted: Thu May 28 18:00:41 1987
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Reply-To: lc@pbhyd.UUCP (Larry Colton)
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In article <8705280225.aa09668@VGR.BRL.ARPA> gwyn@BRL.ARPA (Doug Gwyn, VLD/VMB) writes (in part):
>
>Please note that, although I defended C against several
>unjustified attacks, in an attempt to counter bias for
>the sake of people who have to choose a language for their
>Apple program development...

>...Practically every language has its good
>points, bad points, proper uses, improper uses, powers,
>deficiencies, good style, bad style, economic advantages,
>economic drawbacks, and minuses, aesthetic virtues, and
>aesthetic blemishes.  All these dimensions (and more)
>should be weighted together when making a choice.

I'm sure this group would enjoy reading a discussion of the merits of
the various languages available for the Apple, with an enumeration of
the points mentioned by gwyn, as they are manefested in the implementation
for the Apple.  This might, indeed, allow the user to 'choose a language 
for their Apple program development...'

Other discussions (flames) defending the merits of one language against
attacks, justified or not, add little to this conference.  Such discussions
are probably of interest to some readers, but the minority is too small
to justify the global distribution.

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Larry Colton                      {ihnp4,pyramid,qantel}!ptsfa!pbhyd!lc
Pacific * Bell