SCOUG-Programming Mailing List Archives

<< Previous Message << >> Next Message >>

Date:	Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:53:53 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Re: SCOUG-General: Connectix announcement

In <0HB00044KYW1VG@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net>, on 02/28/03
at 07:24 AM, "Lynn H. Maxson" said:

>I never thank you enough for making my case for me.

Always happy to oblige.

>Of course my single language is based on PL/I and not C,
>another example of working smarter and not harder.

Language religion will not go very far in proving your case. I may not
have mentioned it, but in a past life, I wrote a significant amount of
PL/1. A Google search for 3M Medlab Utah will give you an idea of the
scope and size of the system. When I drifted into embedded systems work,
C and assembler became the better choice in most cases. Of course, all I
believe this experience does is give me enough knowledge of both to know
which language is probably the better choice for a specific task. As you
say, work smart not harder. I see no reason to use a hammer when a
screwdriver is the better choice.

>Meanwhile we have the imminent but oft-delayed arrival of
>eCS 1.1.

The delay of eCS 1.1, IMO, has little to do with software tools. Based on
my knowledge of where SSI is in the process, they are right about where I
expected them to be at this time. Anyhow, this is a tad off topic and I
should not comment further on this.

Steven

--
---------------------------------------------------------------------
"Steven Levine" MR2/ICE 2.35 #10183 Warp4/FP15/14.085_W4
www.scoug.com irc.webbnet.org #scoug (Wed 7pm PST)
---------------------------------------------------------------------

=====================================================

To unsubscribe from this list, send an email message
to "steward@scoug.com". In the body of the message,
put the command "unsubscribe scoug-programming".

For problems, contact the list owner at
"rollin@scoug.com".

=====================================================

Return to [ 28 | February | 2003 ]

SCOUG, Warp Expo West, and Warpfest are trademarks of the Southern California OS/2 User Group. OS/2, Workplace Shell, and IBM are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.