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From: knight@mrco.carleton.ca (Alan Knight)
Subject: Re: SmallTalk vs C++ Challenge!
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In <42jq7t$mg@aadt.sdt.com> leb@sdt.com (Larry E. Baker) writes:

>IMHO, "Rapid Prototypers" that like to boast of the title
>(but who often fall short of delivering sustainable solutions)
>often cite Lisp and Smalltalk as the languages of choice.
...
>"Rapid Application Developers" whose ultimate goal is
>a sustainable solution seem to prefer the the "compiled
>is best" solutions, Visual Basic a notable exception.

To save time, could someone just repost the whole of the "Beware of C
Hackers" discussion now, perhaps with a couple of macro substitutions
:-)

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