Re: Write in C++ and DIE a DOG's death?? High speed box comming!

What *I* want to know is, how come no one has raised an eyebrow about this high-speed box coming?

On 10 Apr 98 at 22:39, Matthew O. Persico wrote:

> Peter Lancashire wrote:
>
> > Personally, I prefer something compact, with an elegant design
> > philosophy behind it, that can be extended gracefully, is readable and
> > can be analyzed by tools. That includes Java but is arguable for C++.
> > What about Smalltalk, Self, Eifel, Prolog, Lisp, Occam, M, Object
> > Pascal, Oberon, etc?

Uh. What about C? /bin/ksh?

> > While I might write a Web site in Perl, I'd prefer avionics and banking
> > to be in something a little more trustworthy.

Oh, I don't know. Based on my experience of Java, I'd rather have my avionics and banking written in Natural than Java... :-)

> Well, Peter, which do you want? I wouldn't call C++ compact or Java
> trustworthy. How many times has the JVM in your browser crashed lately?

Can't argue with that.

> OTOH, I have plenty of production stuff in PERL and have had zero, yes
> zero instances in recent memory where a Perl program "crashed".

Wanna job? :-)

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