Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!CLASH.CISCO.COM!cire From: cire@CLASH.CISCO.COM Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Wollongong, Recvfrom, and UDP Message-ID: <8807151843.AA11294@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 15 Jul 88 04:44:52 GMT References: <8807142049.AA17068@ETN-WLV.EATON.COM> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 26 >> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 88 13:49:24 PDT >> From: mcc@ETN-WLV.EATON.COM (Merton Campbell Crockett) >> To: Fitch@DOCKMASTER.ARPA, tcp-ip@SRI-NIC.ARPA >> Subject: Re: Wollongong, Recvfrom, and UDP >> >> Don't understand why you're proud that you can read MACRO when you have to! >> MACRO is wonderfully explicit unlike C which lacks clarity and Ada which is >> totally obscure. Let's not get religious here. Sure MACRO is explicit but that is different than clarity. MACRO is clear when you understand it. I think this is generally true for any language (computer that is). To someone that doesn't know the machine the MACRO is for a program will be very obscure. But that isn't true for the higher level languages. That is once you understand the language. -c cire|eric Eric B. Decker cisco Systems Menlo Park, California email: cire@cisco.com uSnail: 1360 Willow Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone : (415) 326-1941