From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 22 Sep 92 17:10:37 GMT 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 Message-ID: <1992Sep22.171037.23399@mksol.dseg.ti.com> List-Id: 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.