From roth Tue Jun 21 11:31:26 1994 Received: by ux4.cso.uiuc.edu id AA07902 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for roth); Tue, 21 Jun 1994 11:31:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 11:31:26 -0500 From: Roth Mark Daniel Message-Id: <199406211631.AA07902@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu> To: roth Subject: funny Status: RO >Path: vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!jobone!slee01.srl.ford.com!eccdb1.pms.ford.com!rcsg30.eld.ford.com!wiz >From: wiz@rcsg30.eld.ford.com (Joseph S. Wisniewski) >Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers >Subject: Re: The death of programming...NOT! >Date: 21 Jun 1994 14:06:18 GMT >Organization: Ford Motor Company >Lines: 37 >Distribution: world >Message-ID: <2u6s4q$3dq@eccdb1.pms.ford.com> >References: <2tpd3fINN1jv7@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> <2tqod4$bvu@vesta.unm.edu> >NNTP-Posting-Host: rcsg30.eld.ford.com In article <2tqod4$bvu@vesta.unm.edu>, kogoma@unm.edu (Taki Kogoma) writes: |> eric@lfs.loral.com (Eric Burch) was observed writing in |> alt.folklore.computers: |> >Fifteen years from now, [...] |> >We'll be using C+++. |> |> Hrm. Wouldn't it more likely be called 'C+=2'? ;-) No. C dates back to real slow mechanical teletypes, and attempts to minimize keystrokes whenever possible. Although C+++ and C+=2 both have 4 keystrokes, C+++ keeps you from having to hunt up four different key locations. There was a 'B' language that was a parent of C, so C++ is really D, and the next language due out is E. |> >...And due to public demand, IBM will announce that OS/4 V7.0 |> >will bring back the command line "C prompt" interface. We've got to work 'open' and 'power' into that name. Also something objected to invoke that Taligent/Pink stuff. And a Mac tie-in. How about Pink Open Object Power System Seven, or POOPS/7? |> Meanwhile Microsfoft will be pushing Windows 8.3 (project name 'Salt |> Lake City') with a 'Genuine DOS 10.2 emulation' feature. Make Mine LINUX! |> -- |> Capt. Gym Z. Quirk (Known to some as Taki Kogoma) kogoma@unm.edu |> I'll get a life when someone demonstrates it would be superior to |> what I have now. -- Joseph S. Wisniewski | The views expressed are purely my own, and do not Ford Motor Company | reflect those of the Ford Motor Company, or any of Project Sapphire | its affiliates. wiz@rcsg30.eld.ford.com | "any color you want -- as long as it's black" -- Mark D. Roth | "Why's the network being so slow?" GCS d-- p c++ l++ u+ e+(*) m+ s++/- | "Maybe someone sneezed on a router." n+(---) h f+ g+ w++@ t++@ r- y? | - Mike Blumenthal My Home Page