About programing, a general question

Parshwa Murdia ubuntu.bkn at gmail.com
Sat Dec 18 07:08:10 UTC 2010


On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:

I agree with Kipton Moravec that ALGOL was a much better language but
> that is understandable. FORTRAN was developed by engineers, ALGOL by
> mathematicians. C is also developed by engineers (I rest my case: no
> offence to engineers!!).
> I differ a little with those advocates of C++ as implementation of OOP.
> If you compare it with the implementation in PASCAL (look at Linux fpc)
> you'll see that the implementation is much cleaner and better
> implemented. But it is as with Windows: if the basic concept isn't sound
> ( and that goes for C) than everything you build on that is flawed as
> well. I hope I haven't insulted many people but it is my opinion ( and I
> started programming with ALGOL in 1963).
> Joep



It is the talk of experienced user!


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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia
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