From: Corey Ashford <yeroca@rocketmail.com>
Subject: Re: Renaming Ada (Re: Java momentum slowing ?)
Date: 1999/05/07
Date: 1999-05-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <373310B2.E447CD56@rocketmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7gtvbd$1qo5@drn.newsguy.com
bob@nospam wrote:
[snip]
> I really think that the biggest blunder the Ada95 team did was not
> to rename Ada to something completely different and wild than the
> generic name 'Ada' (for crying out loud, 'Ada' is a name of a person
> who lived more than 130 years ago!, it is not a modern name! what is so
> cool about a name such as 'Ada'? it has the letter 'a' repated 2 times
> in a 3 letters name!! not only that, there is no 'X' or 'Z' or '+' or 'C' or
> 'J' or any of the eye catching letters in the name.
>
> They had the chance to do it then, and they blew it, and we are now
> all paying for that positional mistake and will continue to do so.
The problem is that you'd get this sort of comment: "Oh, Z_Edge, yeah...
that's just a new, more bloated version of that bloated, designed-by-commitee,
military language Ada, hiding under a Gen-X name. Forget about it."
I think the real problem is perception. I've found a number of programmers who
can't stand Ada. They think it's huge and cumbersome and hard to program.
Have they ever programmed in it? No. Have they ever looked at it seriously?
No. How do they "know" what they know about it? Hearsay.
- Corey
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1999-04-29 0:00 Java momentum slowing ? Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-29 0:00 ` x
[not found] ` <7gesv8$1bol@drn.newsguy.com>
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-05-01 0:00 ` Mike
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-05-02 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-05-03 0:00 ` dvdeug
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-05-04 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-05 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-05-05 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-05 0:00 ` bob
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-02 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-02 0:00 ` bob
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Mitch
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Tom
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Andrzej Lewandowski
1999-04-30 0:00 ` Tony Huynh
1999-04-30 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
[not found] ` <7gdlca$2j5l@drn.newsguy.com>
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Bob
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-06 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-06 0:00 ` Matthew Whiting
1999-05-06 0:00 ` Renaming Ada (Re: Java momentum slowing ?) David Botton
1999-05-06 0:00 ` bob
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Ada2001
1999-05-07 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Corey Ashford [this message]
1999-05-07 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-05-07 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Matthew Whiting
1999-05-07 0:00 ` carlislemc
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Java momentum slowing ? Bob Munck
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1999-05-08 0:00 ` steve
1999-05-09 0:00 ` bill
1999-05-09 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-05-09 0:00 ` Pascal F. Martin
1999-05-09 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-09 0:00 ` Pascal F. Martin
1999-05-09 0:00 ` bob
1999-05-09 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Rob
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Pascal F. Martin
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-09 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-09 0:00 ` bill
1999-05-09 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-09 0:00 ` Steve
1999-05-10 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-11 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-11 0:00 ` bob
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Lance Kibblewhite
1999-05-12 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Lance Kibblewhite
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-12 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Dave
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-05-13 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-14 0:00 ` [OT] " Clayton Weaver
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Mitch
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-22 0:00 ` olefevre
1999-05-22 0:00 ` Bob
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