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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3d3f20d31be1c33a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" Subject: Re: Warts was Re: The stupidity of all the Ariane 5 analysts. Date: 1997/08/19 Message-ID: <33FA367D.2534@gsg.eds.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 265442488 References: <5qitoi$fdv$1@news.irisa.fr> <33CD6512.2404@flash.net> <01bc92e6$7a6f9e40$287b7b7a@tlo2> <33CEAF05.6389@flash.net> <33D2827B.41C67EA6@eiffel.com> <5qucs7$jie$3@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> <33D3F2CB.61DC@flash.net> <5r4952$nca$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> <33DE3CC7.2294@gsg.eds.com> <33E07E29.69CB@eurocontrol.fr> <33E7B7A5.56FF@gsg.eds.com> <5scqlr$ju@news.sei.cmu.edu> Organization: EDS MS Reply-To: nospam@gsg.eds.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Brian Rogoff wrote: > > When I first started looking at Ada a few years ago, I knew that it must > really be awful, because everyone said so. There are several pitfalls in that. First, it's almost impossible to know what everybody is saying, so you rely on a random sample that may or may not be representative. Second, the people that you hear may or may not know what they're talking about. And finally, you may or may not understand what they're actually saying: "be carefull of using x in Ada because it's dangerous" is *not* the same as "Ada is awfull." If you're teaching a programming language, it is part of your responsibility to warn your student of potential problems. It is not part of your job to sell him on the virtues of the language. If you train him to have safe habits, he's more likely to decide that he likes the language than if he continually shoots himself in the foot. > -- Brian > -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Senior Software SE The values in from and reply-to are for the benefit of spammers: reply to domain eds.com, user msustys1.smetz or to domain gsg.eds.com, user smetz.