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 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,54889de51045a215 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-23 12:08:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:07:25 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:08:02 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Early Ada Mistakes References: <1066224357.499523@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1066231159.711433@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1066311805.222491@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F8F3077.60402@comcast.net> <3F900F35.50203@comcast.net> <3F952A59.5090001@noplace.com> <3F96788C.5020309@noplace.com> <3F96E2C6.6010708@comcast.net> <3F975D3C.7050804@noplace.com> <1066919806.19766@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> In-Reply-To: <1066919806.19766@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <38adnd5Sk8hwuwWiRVn-tg@gbronline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.115 X-Trace: sv3-gK83BebYXMhtpotV2vHQ5JVhWU12Rg5R7JTM1TKg4hoxanSCiwAQFIktbLCvcNEnUrCaCYC9gwaOZRA!T3jTCga11+lgW/cD36I2CQ4k+Via3ipcKujF4kgEEiHVxtQjBY0mRl1t1wI1n1uGVtiz8aQNWf3L!lw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1536 Date: 2003-10-23T14:08:02-05:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > Marin David Condic wrote: > >> I realize it all got fixed eventually, but it *did* leave a bad taste >> in the mouths of a lot of users. > > > Also, let's not forget the Intel 432 processor, which was supposed > to be "Ada on a chip" and which ran like a pig. (Are pigs slow? > The 432 was slow. .) " ...promoted as being ideal for the Ada programming language. To enforce this, permission and type checks for every memory access ... slowed execution ... " Cute. Let's support Ada, except let's not support any efficiency-oriented features like pragma Suppress. :-) -- Wes Groleau ----------- Curmudgeon's Complaints on Courtesy: http://www.onlinenetiquette.com/courtesy1.html (Not necessarily my opinion, but worth reading)