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: 19 Aug 93 16:08:02 GMT From: utcsri!csri.toronto.edu!blaak@uunet.uu.net (Raymond Blaak) Subject: Hoare's gripes about Ada (was Re: Ada and C++ ...) Message-ID: <1993Aug19.120801.18134@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> List-Id: Someone, somewhere writes: >>One of the supposed beauties of Ada is that it cannot ever change. The Ada >>which Hoare claimed was unfit for any use with serious consequences is the >>same Ada which is out there now, to the best of my understanding. Regardless of what Hoare thinks about Ada now, what were his original complaints about it? Cheers, Ray blaak@csri.toronto.edu