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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,19e983c5955f75f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-05 04:28:05 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!63.208.208.143!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news6-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3ACC546D.4B563398@ntlworld.com> From: "martin.m.dowie" Reply-To: martin.m.dowie@ntlworld.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Learning Ada (newbie) References: <9af9ao$6ee$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <3ACB6286.181416F@ntlworld.com> <9afpfj$ot0$2@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 12:18:06 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.104.131.53 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news6-win.server.ntlworld.com 986469697 213.104.131.53 (Thu, 05 Apr 2001 12:21:37 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 12:21:37 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6502 Date: 2001-04-05T12:18:06+01:00 List-Id: http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/00/05/06/1435238.shtml That's back to May/june time last year - and there is a fair bit of dis-information, but most of it is refuted nicely. enjoy! :-) Ayende Rahien wrote: > "martin.m.dowie" wrote in message > news:3ACB6286.181416F@ntlworld.com... > > Well, not all "cutting edge"/linux/hacker-types go for this - > www.slashdot.org > > had a reasonably Ada-favourable thread a while back. > > Do you've a URL for me? > I would like to read it. > > > Maybe GNAT with its GNU links and Open Source background are helping > > break the ice a little... > > I hope so, Ada looks interesting.