Path: news.net.uni-c.dk!logbridge.uoregon.edu!isdnet!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: stephenjspiro@mail.com (Stephen J Spiro) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.clos,comp.lang.cobol Subject: Re: I need your experience - classification and comparison of languages Date: 21 Jan 2002 12:11:07 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 35 Message-ID: <928495c6.0201211211.4192730d@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.245.119.19 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1011643868 19335 127.0.0.1 (21 Jan 2002 20:11:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Jan 2002 20:11:08 GMT Xref: news.net.uni-c.dk comp.lang.ada:123665 comp.lang.beta:13103 comp.lang.c++:650079 comp.lang.clos:15837 comp.lang.cobol:112962 docdwarf@panix.com wrote in message news:... > In article , > Yvan Radenac wrote: > >I am writing a small report about "Object oriented languages and their > >public implementations" for a course in Software Engineering. > > Please do your own homework. > > DD Not fair, Doc. He is doing generalized research on an extremely wide field, in which he cannot possibly have personal expertise. Given the topic, and in spite of the refernce provided by another post-er, it is sufficiently current and topical that there is probably very little in the literature which is relavant. "Field research", such as inquiring of experts, is completely appropriate in such a case. When I was in college, I had a "major paper" topic for which I could not find a resolution. I had done what I considered a very thorough analysis of the literature. Finally, I realized that one of the frequent contributors on the topic was on the faculty of my school. I looked him up, and aked him if there was (yet) a firm determination of the Genetic Cause of Audiogenic Seizure Susceptibility in Mice. Rather than tell me to do my own homework, he invited me to sit down, and told me what he knew. I think, given the topic, Mr Radenac is entitled to the same courtesy. {Just for the record, Doc, I usually back you up when you give that advice. For someone who just hasn't paid attention in class, or hasn't cracked the book, it's FINE advice. Mr Radenac's assignment, on the other hand, requires a legitimate search for expert opinion.} Stephen J Spiro