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From: Cesar Rabak <csrabak@uol.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Misconception about Ada?
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 23:41:49 -0300
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Preben Randhol wrote:

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> >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