Noah Silva on Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:48:30 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Pascal?


On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 02:26, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> > Having different tools is a good thing. Having different languages is a good
> > thing. Being able to express solutions in different ways to meet different
> > requirements IMHO is a good thing.
> 
> Usually, I would agree, but now I'm thinking no. True, I would want more
> options, but I wouldn't want to maintain a codebase which is a hodgepodge
> of a million languages. We are not at that point yet, but we do have a
> problem in my current job w/ some scripts b/c they are in python and
> nobody knew that language. Python my very well best perl, but it was a
> hassle to find someone to fix it.
> 

Whic is one reason I stick to pascal over other languages like modula
that might technically be "better".

 -- noah silva


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