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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ded6ba3fc5b87b66 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-26 18:00:51 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!europa.netcrusader.net!63.211.125.72!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <39F8D3B6.CF5C13A2@acm.org> From: Jeff Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: First time Ada has let me down References: <8FD7DEBEEsynoptikdamudderfuck@news> <8FD8A9ED5andrewloguecdcgycom@142.77.1.194> <39F7AC37.FF6445D@acm.org> <8FD97E0EDandrewloguecdcgycom@142.77.1.194> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 01:00:49 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.252.122.203 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 972608449 158.252.122.203 (Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:00:49 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:00:49 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:1590 Date: 2000-10-27T01:00:49+00:00 List-Id: Shifty wrote: > I couldn't agree more, but in this particular case I'm trying to track down > problems in an Ada TCP/IP stack which was literally translated from C. > It's the absolute worst Ada code I've seen. I've even run across several > goto statements in there. I guess it must have been pretty bad C, too. -- Jeff Carter "We burst our pimples at you." Monty Python & the Holy Grail