Xref: utzoo comp.software-eng:3183 comp.lang.c:26877 comp.lang.misc:4440 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!rex!uflorida!novavax!weiner From: weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: problems/risks due to programming language Message-ID: <1822@novavax.UUCP> Date: 14 Mar 90 00:32:15 GMT References: <6960@internal.Apple.COM> <259@eiffel.UUCP> <53012@microsoft.UUCP> <2628@castle.ed.ac.uk> <176@eiffel.UUCP> <177@eiffel.UUCP> <264@eiffel.UUCP> Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, FL Lines: 9 In-reply-to: bertrand@eiffel.UUCP's message of 9 Mar 90 08:07:51 GMT Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.5 of Tue Sep 15 1987 on novavax (berkeley-unix) not all outside commentators enjoy. We have written tens of thousands of lines of typed, reusable object-oriented software, including libraries that are used daily by hundreds of people. Once again this does not make us infallible, but I know of very, very few people in the world today who have that kind of experience, and the appreciation it gives for what works and what does not. -- Bob Weiner, Motorola, Inc., USENET: ...!gatech!uflorida!novavax!weiner