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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e3feb606f668a7c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Gautier Subject: Re: Ada 95 based RTOS Date: 2000/02/23 Message-ID: <38B3EA94.E3AB4929@maths.unine.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 588819281 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <88ilp7$bcm$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38ADCA44.3B91BF6F@averstar.com> <88qli0$gvr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38B2A2A1.FDCDDFE7@honeywell.com> <88ugrd$7j7$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <890ght$bih1@ftp.kvaerner.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: 23 Feb 2000 14:10:13 +0100, mac13-32.unine.ch Organization: Maths - Uni =?iso-8859-1?Q?Neuch=E2tel?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > If your read (and believe) what the Jargon file > (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/) writes about Ada then it is not surprising > that languages like Ada are not popular with the hackers. Ada has had a > terrible reputation. An interesting thing is that these impressions seem to be just based on gossips (Ada 83, with the first compiler attempts) or simply copied from the criticism about Pascal - which is somehow justified for Pascal. A fundamental reason why fundamental things do not change in software as fast as for other technical domains is that an ASCII text even doesn't become yellow with the time. The "Ada" topic in the Jargon file must be about 20 years old, but a newcomer could take it as fresh information... Anyway the whole text smells its 1970-early 1980, with plenty of PDP-11 and so on... Maybe for the "Elderly Hackers Club" ?... -- Gautier _____\\________________\_______\_________ http://members.xoom.com/gdemont/gsoft.htm