From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, RATWARE_MS_HASH,RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11390f,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: fd7c9,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gidfd7c9,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public From: "James Giles" Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results Date: 1997/10/16 Message-ID: <01bcd9ce$270ec120$3ba7410c@default>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 281130186 References: <343fbb5a.0@news.iprolink.ch> <343FD05C.8986A557@flash.net> <3441B496.41C6@lmco.com> <3442B745.5352@lmco.com> Organization: Ricercar Software Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.fortran Date: 1997-10-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: William Dale Jr wrote in article <3442B745.5352@lmco.com>... [...] > Ignorance of the domain and the forced use of obscure (MIL-STD-1750A) > processors have also given Ada a bad name. It is a poor workman who > blames his tools. ( Then again, the boss didn't give you any tools, did > he? ) The line "It's a poor workman that blames his tools" is one of my favorites on the net. It is usually used to defend particularly badly designed tools (though, I do not accuse you in this instance). The correct response is: "A good workman acquires the best tools and discards those which don't suit his purposes." -- J. Giles Ricercar Software