Quest Software can always use excellent SPL coders. If there are any out
there please send a resume to me.

John Saylor
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Toback [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 3:33 PM
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Subject: Re: SPL Programmers?


John Korb writes:

>I guess I'm one of the throw-backs that likes and still uses SPL (and
>SPLASH!) on a daily basis.  "C" is one language that I have never taken
>much of a liking to - it seems to all to often do things I don't want it to
>do to "help me out", sort of lake that blasted paper-clip in MS WORD.

Not to start a language war, but C has one thing that SPL lacks, and that
causes SPL programmers to waste huge amounts of time in workarounds:
structures. The kludge of using a specially-named pointer with a bunch of
DEFINE statements is acceptable when working with a bootstrap compiler,
but HP really should have released the later versions of SPL II, which
fixed the deficiency. I seem to recall that SPLash! has both structures
and parameterized macros, making it a much more viable language than SPL.

-- Bruce


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