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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ce439995694047ee X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada for dummies needed. References: <1109658579.355901.140180@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <2PlXd.17054$JH1.745739@news20.bellglobal.com> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:06:10 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1110305086 198.96.223.163 (Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:04:46 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:04:46 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8869 Date: 2005-03-08T13:06:10-05:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter wrote: > Adrian Hoe wrote: > >> That sounds very harsh and biased to a beginner (or dummy). Couldn't >> you be humble and nice? Cheers :-) > > I think it's a good thing that Ada is not for dummies. That may limit > its popularity, but it means that a person's attitude towards Ada may be > used as a discriminator. I have to disagree with this. Isn't part of the idea to encourage people to use Ada? I don't think it need to become a snobbish sort of fraternity/guild. > Now if we can just arrange things so dummies are not allowed to make > language choices or create designs ... Obviously, you don't want them to choose Ada either. Your attitude just seems counter productive. Maybe I didn't see the smileys. Warren.