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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fca456da8e6ec463 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-26 13:09:46 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: Lao Xiao Hai Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Latin and other irrelevant topics Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:06:14 -0800 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3A71E6C6.A9BCA4CC@ix.netcom.com> References: <94p9fl$a1g$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 3f.35.b8.14 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 26 Jan 2001 21:08:32 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4575 Date: 2001-01-26T21:08:32+00:00 List-Id: Brian Rogoff wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Robert Dewar wrote: > > > Decimate refers to the practice in the Roman army of punishing > > a failing unit of an army by randomly executing one out of ten > > members. > > Now that's interesting. I wonder if the US military will reintroduce the > practice to keep software quality high now that Ada is being replaced by > C++ ;-) Well, since we are getting silly, does anyone know how Roman soldiers counted off? I, II, III, IV, V, VI, ... I'm not going to sign this. :-)