Re: Your Guru Paul Graham is getting trashed on Slashdot.

From: Roedy Green (look-on_at_mindprod.com.invalid)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:19:22 GMT

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:05:55 +0000 (UTC), hannah@schlund.de (Hannah
Schroeter) wrote or quoted :

>So trashing C++ means I'm higly opinionated?

There is a difference between trashing some specific feature of a
language and blanket trashing the language as a whole claiming it has
no use ever for any purpose.

There is a similar formula that would account for someone claming some
language, e.g. Java, C++, SQL was the great panacea for all possible
problems and that everything else is junk. We're number 1, We're
number 1.

Similarly, those who claim blanket superiority for their nation likely
have never visited many other places. 

-- 
Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming. 
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.

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