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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, MSGID_SHORT,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!unido!tub!fauern!tumuc!guug!pcsbst!horst From: horst@pcsbst.UUCP (horst) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: pro Ada argument? Message-ID: <1178@pcsbst.UUCP> Date: 22 Dec 89 18:05:48 GMT References: <1149@pcsbst.UUCP> <629649952.9223@minster.york.ac.uk> Reply-To: aida!horst@pcsbst.UUCP (horst kern) Organization: PCS GmbH, Pfaelzer-Wald-Str. 36, 8000 Muenchen; West-Germany List-Id: In article <629649952.9223@minster.york.ac.uk> forsyth@minster.york.ac.uk writes: > Horst Kern reports a novel approach to software engineering: let the > lawyers do it. What a good way of settling technical arguments! (See Okay, I can see the problem: Even though everyone was called to participate in the Ada effort, some people - like Edsgar Dijkstra - have given their reasons for repelling all three language proposals and are now hoping that the Russians will use Ada too. (He made this statement 6 years ago so it is perhaps not up to date any more.) The current discussion makes it evident that the laws (again this word which is so much disliked) of nature have not yet been discovered in computer science. So I think it is a good discussion and nobody should tell Ted Holdon to shut up. Best regards, Horst