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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:05:03 -0700
From: Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Good enough approximation for ape/pcc
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On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 05:37:48PM -0500, Russ Cox wrote:
> > P.S. Now, if I were an independent C++ consultant, I wouldn't push too hard,
> > after all -- even they should remember what happened to the Tower of Babel.
>
> The people at Babel had one really good language that
> everyone understood, and they were highly productive.
> This reminds you of C++ programmers?

  That actually does remind me of C++ circa '90(*). From then on, it
  was all downhill.

Thanks,
Roman.

(*) I believe '90 was a year ARM got published give or take a year or two ;-)