From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
Subject: Re: How many Ada programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:04:37 -0500
Date: 2002-02-14T15:04:37-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C6C1855.2010103@mail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3c6afee7.7694959@news.cis.dfn.de
Nick Roberts wrote:
> Q: How many Ada programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
>
> A: About half as many as the number of C++ programmers required.
> Furthermore, the bulb tends to last much longer before needing to be
> changed again. Also, it's almost unheard of for the bulb not to fit the
> socket.
But it requires a power saw to open up the container so that
you can take the light bulb out. Then the discarded packing
material fills up your whole trash bin. :-)
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-10 23:55 How many Ada programmers does it take to change a light bulb? Gavin Small
2002-02-11 2:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-02-11 10:45 ` John McCabe
2002-02-11 12:42 ` Marc A. Criley
2002-02-11 14:45 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-11 15:13 ` John McCabe
2002-02-11 19:07 ` Pascal Obry
2002-02-12 2:24 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-12 4:32 ` Eric Merritt
2002-02-12 10:56 ` John McCabe
2002-02-16 14:38 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-16 14:55 ` Florian Weimer
2002-02-18 6:31 ` Anders Wirzenius
2002-02-18 10:31 ` John McCabe
2002-02-18 11:35 ` John McCabe
2002-02-12 11:06 ` John McCabe
2002-02-11 13:40 ` Preben Randhol
2002-02-12 12:21 ` John English
2002-02-14 0:32 ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-14 20:04 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
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