From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.co m!mksol!mccall@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: DARPA admits Ada gets in the way
Date: 22 Sep 92 17:10:37 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1992Sep22.171037.23399@mksol.dseg.ti.com> (raw)
In <1992Sep21.161408.3733@arizona.edu> frank@evax2.engr.arizona.edu (Frank Mann
ing) writes:
>In article <1992Sep21.170317.28618@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com
>(fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>>Didn't they ever teach you that you should pick the proper language and
>>tools for each specific job. This is what I see as the biggest problem
>>with the 'Ada Mandate'.
>How come everybody uses English when they mention this in Usenet? Aren't
>there other languages better suited for complaining?
Yes, but not on Usenet/Internet -- which is primarily native English
speakers and for which the 'standard' language is English.
[Complaining isn't writing software. Back to the mines until you
learn something, Frank. :-)]
--
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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