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=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6ec8df5df532a28f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!130.59.10.21.MISMATCH!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!newsfeed.ision.net!newsfeed2.easynews.net!ision!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What is Delta?? From: Georg Bauhaus In-Reply-To: <1147441763.156229.104470@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1147335626.779489.9240@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1147351779.350384.148960@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1147432341.626162.65870@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1147441763.156229.104470@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Organization: # Message-ID: <1147451902.18724.68.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 18:38:23 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 May 2006 18:37:30 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 44b21b75.newsread2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=4Ei7@XJQK:WjYMQID6OnPXQ5U85hF6f;TjW\KbG]kaMXVA=iV<7g:2UN71C_Yj7TQ^=0F65HQV8iViQ:TIkElR On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 06:49 -0700, Martin Krischik wrote: > PS: its "you" not "u" - we are software engeneers here and not getto > kits. Martin, if you could kindly consider being a little more thoughtful when using the word "ghetto". Not only because of its tradition in fairly recent European history, but also because it seems you do not really understand what you are talking about. There is a lot to know about former Cabrini Green, the history of Chinese/Italian/Spanish/etc. quarters in New York, the "suburbs" of Calcutta, Duisburg-Bruckhausen, the aptness of the term "ghetto", and the various influences on language, the probability of low budget thieving, and the distribution of parental educational resources. (Nothing implied here as regards the participants of this thread!) Also there is more to say about the pride and meaning that some young inhabitants (or not) of their quarters attach to the term "ghetto kid". If you dislike IRC slang or whatever it is, or want to say, "Young man, I must say I don't appreciate your way of addressing things. What have you learned so far?", there is of course nothing wrong with that. All these 'u's and 'i's aren't highly and directly correlated with being able to understand Ada, and not indicative of a sloppy way. Proof attempt: Technically, decades of "ghetto music" have shown various and=20 sophisticated construction patterns, played by highly skilled musicians, technical masters not only of their instruments but also of the theory of music. A frequent finding with programmers. (I'm sure you will be able to pick someone to whom these qualifications do not apply.) Conversely, knowing Ada very well is not an indicator of being a poet. OTOH, being a very good and knowledgeable programmer is a necessary requirement for involvement in high budget organized computer aided fraud.=20 I'm not accusing you or me or anyone, of course. Even though, by age and "class", criminal statistics demonstrably makes finding high rate bribery more likely among people in their mid-40s and beyond who work, for example, in the car industries, which is, I hear, a target of Ada advocacy. FWIW, famous mathematicians did the very same thing, they abbreviate a lot in their hand written letters. I invite you to have a look at specimen written by Euler, or Gau=C3=9F. Sathish, I have learned that in c.l.ada it is the custom to present some proof of foregoing efforts to learn something or tackle a problem. A good way IMHO, and may I suggest you try this approach and present a few specific problems, written in Ada by you, that your have tried with a compiler. Georg Please excuse the length.