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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!stat!sun13!fsu!prism!kt4 From: kt4@prism.gatech.EDU (Ken Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: tasking in language a bad idea Message-ID: <10106@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 4 Jun 90 21:26:23 GMT References: <20104@grebyn.com> <1930@cod.NOSC.MIL> Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology List-Id: In article <1930@cod.NOSC.MIL> sampson@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (Charles H. Sampson) writes: >In article <20104@grebyn.com> ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden) writes: >> >>Check out the 750 "problems" listed on the AdaWoe bulletin board... >> > I case anyone is being misled by the repeated references to Ada's >"750 problems", these are the unfiltered "problems" submitted during >the 9X comment period. There is much duplication and overlapping among >them. For example, on >Charlie Sampson, CSC I am not a fanatic on either side of the Ada language issue. I like most all of what they tried to do with it. I don't really like how some turned out. I would say that 750 unfiltered problems/wish lists/etc is a relatively small number. I wonder how many of these types of things the ANSI C committee had to wade through. My impression was a whole lot. Ken -- Ken Thompson GTRI, Ga. Tech, Atlanta Ga. 30332 Internet:!kt4@prism.gatech.edu uucp:...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!kt4 "Rowe's Rule: The odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train." -- Paul Dickson