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| 251.1 | | TELFON::MAILMAN | Steve Mailman | Thu Sep 21 1989 18:46 | 10 |
| > Cross-posted from
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> <<< TURRIS::NOTE$:[NOTES$LIBRARY]PASCAL.NOTE;1 >>>
> -< VAX PASCAL Notes >-
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> where comparison is apparently
> NOT INVITED
No, not true. We were just getting tired of you wasting
our time.
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| 251.2 | | DWOVAX::YOUNG | We're no worse than anyone else. :-( | Thu Sep 21 1989 21:37 | 4 |
| If you are truly interested in comparing the benefits of COBOL vs.
Pascal with regard to Rdb/SQL, then you should ask in an Rdb/SQL
conference. That is where you are most likely to find people who have
done Rdb/SQL programming in both languages.
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| 251.3 | An excellent idea!! Or am I being shuffled off to Buffalo? | TURBO::PHANEUF | Business Info Tech (Prov 24:10-12) | Tue Sep 26 1989 19:37 | 18 |
| RE: < Note 251.2 by DWOVAX::YOUNG >
> If you are truly interested in comparing the benefits of COBOL vs.
> Pascal with regard to Rdb/SQL, then you should ask in an Rdb/SQL
> conference. That is where you are most likely to find people who have
> done Rdb/SQL programming in both languages.
An excellent suggestion, on which I will follow through. However, I do
chafe a bit at the presumption that I might have some hidden agenda
("If you are truly interested in..."). Why can't people take others at
face value and assume the best about them, at least until shown otherwise?
I'm off again...
Thanks,
Brian
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| 251.4 | Great! Follow His Suggestion, and He Swats You Again! | TURBO::PHANEUF | Business Info Tech (Prov 24:10-12) | Tue Sep 26 1989 19:41 | 11 |
| Re: < Note 251.1 by TELFON::MAILMAN >
> No, not true. We were just getting tired of you wasting our time.
Well, excuuuuuse me!! Somehow, I thought that the exchange of information
and the relieve of specific ignorances what the PURPOSE of Notes
Conferences!! Pardonnez moi, monsieur, for have wasted YOUR precious time!
Harrumph!! 8^{(
Brian
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| 251.5 | | GIDDAY::GILLINGS | Have we fixed it yet? | Tue Sep 26 1989 21:50 | 24 |
| re .4:
> Well, excuuuuuse me!! Somehow, I thought that the exchange of information
> and the relieve of specific ignorances what the PURPOSE of Notes
> Conferences!!
This is a fair description of the purpose of NOTEs conferences. However,
*noone is under any obligation whatsoever to answer your notes*. The
tone of some of your notes (and I've read the ones in the PASCAL
conference as well) imply that you expect to not only have have a right to
have your notes answered but that the answer should be what you wanted
to hear. Snide comments about "what have they got to hide" and thinly
veiled threats that unless you hear something good you won't use whoevers
favorite language won't get you anything except perhaps some flames. I
didn't attempt to answer your questions, even though I have some
experience in both languages because I would put your question in the same
class as:
"I want to buy a new vehicle, should I buy a delivery van or a
Volkswagen beetle?".
It's all a matter of what you want to do with it, what your needs are and
above all what your tastes/religion dictates.
Mr Moderator: Should this note be write locked?
John Gillings, Sydney CSC
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| 251.6 | qualified because... | DWOVAX::YOUNG | We're no worse than anyone else. :-( | Wed Sep 27 1989 17:19 | 15 |
| Re .4:
Sorry, I did not intend to imply that you had concious hidden agenda.
I only meant that if the only comparision between VAX COBOL and VAX
Pascal you were interested in was their merits with regard to Rdb/SQl,
then that was the place to go. If however, you were interested in the
larger question of comparing VAX COBOL and VAX Pascal in general, then
that was probably not the place to go.
I qualified it thus because some of your questions in .0 seemed to be
about them in general, rather than just their Rdb/SQL aspects. No need
to infer the worst about me, either.
-- Barry
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