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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: F-22 ADA Programming Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 09:12:14 +0100 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <1h1j10absxps2$.fgtx3ftyhgx1.dlg@40tude.net> References: <220f97ab-9aa2-4961-b140-2b271c3ab99a@googlegroups.com> <99759c3f-a35f-4745-a8fd-2fb6ab6fb1aa@googlegroups.com> <48dc1630-8e7d-4e29-8bdd-53d74932d9d0@googlegroups.com> <88a7f98c-55c2-4b5f-8a9d-c8b7512781c8@googlegroups.com> <1i3ybg2vfpww7$.blbdxnclootv$.dlg@40tude.net> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: GlVIcsM748lydPrb7Wxppw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:23078 Date: 2014-11-08T09:12:14+01:00 List-Id: On Fri, 7 Nov 2014 22:52:30 -0600, Randy Brukardt wrote: > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote in message > news:1i3ybg2vfpww7$.blbdxnclootv$.dlg@40tude.net... > ... >> He possibly was. But I wrote about evidently criminal orders, which >> justify >> actions like public disobedience. Using C++ is not criminal, not even >> amoral. It is only stupid. Stupidity is not a crime. > > But why not? Why do we tolerate stupidity? It's the root of much of our > (humanities') trouble... Per definition. Stupidity and criminality are merely definitions of what the society [presently] consider criminal and/or stupid. Criminal things are fought by prosecution. Stupidity is rather lovingly fostered among electorate, watchers, listeners, buyers etc... (:-)) But seriously, as history had shown many times, it is readiness not to tolerate which brings us real, fat troubles. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de