On (21 Mar 95) Bob Lawrence wrote to Brenton Vettoretti...



 BV> BTW, do you know what M$ used to use to write their C compiler

 BV> ? Their Pascal compiler (sic)



 BL>   What did they use to write their Pascal compiler?



visual basic of course, and that was written in cobol which, in turn was

written in fortran. fortran was written on the back of an old envelope

by a bunch of drunken engineers who broke into the computer room one

night after a very heavy porn and prawn night. once you realise that

that was the base of all, the reason for the fucking mess that we have

these days becomes clear (:



 BV> Why do you think dBase was such a hit a few years ago. While

 BV> the idiots were all rushing out buying their $29.99 Pascal

 BV> compiler, the smart ones were spending $399 on dBase and

 BV> earning a fortune from it. It's the same with VB today. The

 BV> wanna-be's are killing themselves to learn C or C++ while the

 BV> smarties are out earning money with VB and Access. They write

 BV> crap with it but in most cases the end user doesn't know and

 BV> happily pays for it.



 BL>   The ones who actually *do* things don't give a stuff about tools -

 BL> as long as they work. If you are not doing anything real, you can 

 BL> rabbit all you like because nothing comes out the other end but shit.



when it come to the down and dirty business of making a buck, the end

user doesn't give a shit if the product is written in sandskrit as long

as it does the job. you use the tools that work for you, hell i've even

known people make a living as "professional" clist
"programmers"! (sorry

mainframers in joke)



 BL>   I'm not saying that this is a bad idea - just an expensive one: a

 BL> combined $600 compiler. Pascal is *nearly* an alternative to C, and it

 BL> may be possible to learn just one language: Pascal and Delphi with

 BL> dBase, and that's it! I can see why Frank wanted Delphi.



pascal is for poofs that need protecting from themselves, referencing a

null pointer is a character building exercise and provides endless

amusement for others. i'm against all this mollycoddling lets get back

to the old days when you could tell the bird with the big tits at a

party that you programmed computers, and she would coo "oo you must be

very clever", and when you modestly denied it she *knew* that you were

lying ;)  now she probably writes in vb! 



                        Keith

 



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