Re: Ada student homework ?

[Nicolas Brunot <n.brunot@cadwin.com>]

That's right, sorry to have said that.

I had often the opportunity to 'discuss' with R.Dewar and there is obviously a
very different point of view from people using Ada without having any
responsability in time and costs for develoments, and those who have.
If you have huge freedom in time available and costs, and nothing to report to
anybody about that, and no concerns about making a lot of people going away
from Ada, he is surely a good theory guy.
But if you have to deal with time, costs and efficiency, its way of thinking
leads to disaster.
I mentionned his name because the 'bit manipulation thread' was illustrating
that quite well, and because I think that talking about advertising, it's
important to let people know that a lot of Ada users are strongly against its
unquestionable approach of programming which is absolutely unrealistic
economically speaking.

That should have been explained without mentioning names.

Brian Rogoff wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Nicolas Brunot wrote:
> > I personally wouldn't like to ride on an airplane programmed by R.Dewar
> > who would certainly explained he expected the plane to crash because
> > the compiler behaves as he expects ...
>
> It's this kind of post that makes me think this newsgroup is a waste of
> time. Do you so rapidly descend into personal attacks with your colleagues
> at work too? Can I infer from this post that I don't want to use any piece
> of software written by Nicolas Brunot because he's so wrapped up in some
> personal vendetta against Robert Dewar that he obviously can't think
> straight, and goes off posting insults on a technical newsgroup? Are you
> one of those people who thinks nothing of littering or newsgroup spam?
>
> Moderation would make this a better group I think, but as I recall there
> has been little interest in doing it.
>
> -- Brian