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=1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS, 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 20:44:41 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!dragon.acadiau.ca!841613t From: 841613t@dragon.acadiau.ca (Don Tyzuk) Subject: Re: Ichibah flames, and flames out over, Ada 9X Message-ID: <1993Mar5.120643.2754@dragon.acadiau.ca> Organization: Acadia University References: <24634.730767510@blackbird> <1993Feb28.184206.27188@dragon.acadiau.ca> <314@fedfil.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 12:06:43 GMT Date: 1993-03-05T12:06:43+00:00 List-Id: news@fedfil.UUCP (news) 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. Dear Ted: I have read Hoare's Turing award lecture, long prior to any interest in Ada. I would say then that I am not putting blinders on w.r.t. the remarks in the lecture about Ada, because I formed my opinion "pre-Ada". I found Hoare's comments to be reactionary and un-substantiated. I will include them in my talk because I believe in presenting a balanced view. Anyway, if one presents a one-sided argument full of rhetoric, it only serves the purpose of the other side. -- Don Tyzuk | P.O. Box 1406 Jodrey School of Computer Science | Wolfville, Nova Scotia Acadia University | CANADA B0P 1X0 e-mail: don.tyzuk@acadiau.ca