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Re: inline out-of-line

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:30:24 -0800
Message-ID: <1077233382.580143@yasure>


Ed prochak wrote:

> Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1077050003.211294_at_yasure>...
>

>>Vu Pham wrote:

>
> []
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>>>
>>>Thanks for the advice. I have the feeling that you are also a serious C
>>>developer :-)
>>>
>>>Vu
>>
>>Actually my C starts and stops with Hello World. Took one course.
>>Hated it. I think it is the dumbest language ever devised. Now Pascal
>>... that's a decent language. If Borland had chosen C and Microsoft
>>Pascal we'd likely all be happier. No my background was Fortran and
>>Cobol.

>
>
> Given your temperment Daniel, I'm not surprised.
> SQL and PASCAL are high level programming languages.
> C is a high level assembler. I don't see you as an assembler programmer.
>
> and yes, you got to love BORLAND PASCAL.
>
> Ed

I'm a RAD kind of guy. If the compiler isn't smart enough to figure out where to stuff something in memory it may be a good tools for writing the Oracle database but it is preposterously expensive for a company that just wants internal apps.

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