From: Cesar Rabak <csrabak@uol.com.br>
Subject: Re: Misconception about Ada?
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 23:41:49 -0300
Date: 2001-02-11T23:41:49-03:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A874D6D.201E8247@uol.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrn98eeli.2cd.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no
Preben Randhol wrote:
[snipped]
> >I guess Ada is not suitable for the sort of programming he cares about:
>
> Yes it is, but I believe he has not tried it. An Ada version of
> fetchmail would not be a bad idea.
A similar idea as the bind discussed in another thread in this NG!
>
> >"In 1996 a widely-reported and plausible estimate of community sizes held
> >that for every Python hacker there were five Tcl hackers and twelve Perl
> >hackers. "
>
> Which does not say much. I mean there is no logic in the notion that the
> majority is right. They seldom are...
>
> >Speak up, Ada hackers!
>
> Which is another point. The hacker definition is hopeless in the sense
> that all media use it for cracker, so people who do not know more than
> what the media writes thinks linux and the like are done buy a bunch of
> criminals :-( Anyway one can argue, from the definition of a hacker,
> that a cracker is a hacker that is good at breaking into systems.
So would you agree, if we changed to: "Speak up, Ada practioners!"?
Cesar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-12 2:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-11 23:49 Misconception about Ada? Cesar Rabak
2001-02-11 23:30 ` Robert Deininger
2001-02-12 0:34 ` David Starner
2001-02-12 1:20 ` Preben Randhol
2001-02-12 2:41 ` Cesar Rabak [this message]
2001-02-12 13:06 ` Preben Randhol
2001-02-12 19:35 ` Cesar Rabak
2001-02-12 16:15 ` Ted Dennison
2001-02-12 18:43 ` Preben Randhol
2001-02-12 20:03 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-02-13 15:31 ` Ted Dennison
2001-02-13 16:56 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-02-13 18:05 ` Ted Dennison
2001-02-13 18:14 ` Mark Carroll
2001-02-13 20:27 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-02-13 22:04 ` Ted Dennison
2001-02-13 16:21 ` Robert Deininger
2001-02-12 2:39 ` Cesar Rabak
2001-02-12 16:02 ` Ted Dennison
2001-02-12 14:08 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-02-12 15:47 ` Ted Dennison
2001-02-12 15:36 ` gdemont
2001-02-13 1:41 ` David Starner
2001-02-12 17:50 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2001-02-12 18:49 ` Thierry Lelegard
2001-02-12 20:06 ` Laurent Guerby
2001-02-12 23:35 ` Juergen Pfeifer
2001-02-13 2:24 ` sk
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