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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7251fa99aab97e06 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-03-05 15:57:13 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!wupost!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!uw-beaver!pattis From: pattis@cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis) Subject: Re: Ichibah flames, and flames out over, Ada 9X Message-ID: <1993Mar5.023925.1321@beaver.cs.washington.edu> Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle References: <24634.730767510@blackbird> <1993Feb28.184206.27188@dragon.acadiau.ca> <314@fedfil.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 93 02:39:25 GMT Date: 1993-03-05T02:39:25+00:00 List-Id: In article <314@fedfil.UUCP> news@fedfil.UUCP (news) writes: >In article <1993Feb28.184206.27188@dragon.acadiau.ca>, 841613t@dragon.acadiau.ca (Don Tyzuk) writes: > > >You should start by finding out who Charles Anthony Richard Hoare is, and >what the ACM is, and what the Touring award is. You should then find a >copy of the lecture which Mr. Hoare delivered on the occasion of his >receiving the Touring award from the ACM in 1980. You should then >read that paper from beginning to end, and inform your local community >as to what you have learned. > >Ted Holden >HTE Actually, you should first find out who Alan Turing is, and how his name is spelled. Then, after you read the paper by C.A.R. Hoare, you should read his foreword to Watt, Wichmann, Findlay, "Ada Language and Methodology". Finally, you should find out how Dr. Hoare feels about C and C++, so you have a context to gauge what he says about Ada. Rich Pattis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Richard E. Pattis "Programming languages are like Department of Computer Science pizzas - they come in only "too" and Engineering sizes: too big and too small."