Re: Best language for low IQ programmers?

[jtc@dimensional.com (Jim Cochrane)]

Don't feed the trolls, Eirik - or the trolls responding to trolls ... :-)

In article <R1rG7.14$eZi.171124224@news.telia.no>,
Eirik Mangseth <no_spam_eirik@stockpoint.no> wrote:
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>"jmburton" <jmburton@usenix.org> wrote in message
>news:1005188797788841@usenix.org...
>> > C++ is the best choice for dull programmers. The quality of your code
>will
>> > be indistinguishable from that of a the C++ guru.
>>
>> Are you a troll?
>>
>> In case if you are genuine, which I doubt, I disagree. Eiffel is a
>> better language for dull programmers. Since Eiffel is usually abandoned
>> before software goes into production, no one will ever have to deal
>> with the inevitable bugs left by sloppy Eiffel programmers.
>> Plus, poor performance due to bad algorithms designed by poorly
>> educated programmers can be excused by the natural slowness of Eiffel
>> (garbage collection instead of efficient on-demand memory allocation
>> and deallocation).
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>> You have to know C++ anyway, as Eiffel is merely a front end to C++
>> (it is compiled into C++, not native code), and requires external calls
>> to C++ for anything useful like OS services.
>>
>> I studied Eiffel in college and have a buddy who used to program in
>> that sad pathetic language, so I do know what I am talking about.
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>And pigs will fly.
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>-- eirik
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>"If I can't Eiffel in heaven, I won't go"
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