Re:

[Fernando Salas <fsalas@fibertel.com.ar>]

Hi

    No comments on Eiffel?, I read the specs a while ago and sounds promising

Fernando

ByteSavers International wrote:

> At 10:57 PM 11/19/99 -0600, you wrote:
> >Whoa.. so you are saying Java becomes x86 machine code through the use of
> >JIT compilers? Scary... I must do something to slow the JAVA juggernaut and
> >protect my beloved C++! I have heard that the actual implementation on most
> >systems is very sketchy. The best programmers at Microsoft tried and could
> >not get java to work 100% right.
> >
> >Idahosa Edokpayi
>
>    Where I go to school, they're having major problems 8)
>    But of course, they're still running Win95 and instead of actually teaching
> file access, they're teaching the redirection ops in DOS.
>    As for protecting languages, don't worry about it.  I program in COBOL for
> some of my apps 8)  I'm curious...What languages do you folk know?  I've been
> programming since I was 3.  That was in BASIC, and just simple goto and prints.
>    As for my part, I've kept up with BASIC from GW-BASIC, QBASIC, and VB.  I
> also
> know Fortran, Lisp, Cobol, C/C++, Java, Ada, PL/I, Pascal, Prolog, and Forth (my
> personal favorite!).  I'm teaching myself Algol.  Really just because it was the
> first OOP, and because I like learning old languages 8)
>    In all seriousness, I found learning COBOL and Forth to be the 2
> languages that
> had the biggest impact on me.  COBOL for it's incredible file handling and Forth
> because the structure of the language is WAY different from just about
> anything else
> out there (The implementation I use forces reverse Polish notation) and
> because it's
> such a low level type of language.  The very structure of it encourages you
> to really
> go through some fun mental gymnastics.
>    When Prodigy was still around, it wasn't too uncommon to see people write
> a couple lines
> of code (with just the minimum syntactical whitespace to preserve media
> space of course!).
>    Tracing that code was an adventure.
>    Anyway, what other languages do you guys/gals know?
>
> -Phil/CERisE
> SomeOtherPerson: we have no cheese in the house!
> SomeOtherPerson: err..we do, but it's non-fat tasteless garbage
> CERisE8192: Well that's because you're pathetic weight-watchers ;)
> SomeOtherPerson: it almost ruined my sunday night...
>
> 6:20-ish 10/18/99
>
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