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Date:Mon Jul 12 12:11:30 1993 
Subject:Bugs, Death and everything 
From:scottw (Scott Wheeler) 
Volume-ID:930712.05 

> Once you start to get familiar with the constructs and idioms of a
> particular language your computational imagination begins to `tune in'
> to that language. You then find that doing the sorts of things you
> want to do is HARD in every other language except the one you are
> using.

Known as the "Fortran Fanatic's Fulmination", and caused by not
knowing enough alternative languages. But it shouldn't be confused
with the case where someone has representative experience of a good
number of languages and on that basis prefers assembler or low-level
languages for most jobs. And also note that neither Helen or myself
are programming in assembler at the moment, so by your reasoning we
should be Pop evangelists (or whatever).

Don't you think that Pop will be considered too low-level, or just
obsolete by the time you are 75? For that consistency I think you need
Fortran or Cobol - people will still be mangling Fortran 66 a hundred 
years from now.

Personally I like Holy Wars. And I find your indentation style
personally offensive, so there.

Scott