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,dcef461458f157f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-11-10 23:26:32 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!newsgate.cistron.nl!news.tele.dk!148.122.208.68!news2.oke.nextra.no!nextra.com!news1.oke.nextra.no.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3A0CF44D.C167D209@online.no> From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" Organization: Jensen programvareutvikling X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Here we go again... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 08:25:01 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.67.226.199 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@nextra.no X-Trace: news1.oke.nextra.no 973927590 130.67.226.199 (Sat, 11 Nov 2000 08:26:30 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 08:26:30 MET Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:2012 Date: 2000-11-11T08:25:01+01:00 List-Id: Jan Kroken wrote: > > BTW: Has anyone tried to convince ESR to remove his crap > from The New Hackers Dictionary? I have. Strangely enough my impression of him is that he thinks that terseness is the same as efficiency. It is impossible to convince him that the wordiness of ada boost productivity. Perhaps this has something to do with his - in my not very humble opinion- rather simplistic political beliefs. Greetings,