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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-01 09:55:26 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!uunet!osa.uu.net!sac.uu.net!ash.uu.net!xyzzy!nntp From: Jeffrey Carter Subject: Re: Future with Ada X-Nntp-Posting-Host: e246420.msc.az.boeing.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3C7FB9D2.D9C6E055@boeing.com> Sender: nntp@news.boeing.com (Boeing NNTP News Access) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: The Boeing Company X-Accept-Language: en References: <3wdH7.20135$xS6.32614@www.newsranger.com> <9tqete0gqc@drn.newsguy.com> <3C0924D6.2B5A3087@adaworks.com> <250220022121494455%thehouseofcards@remove.this.part.mac.com> <3C7B0B13.3080003@worldnet.att.net> <3C7D1C89.2000803@home.com> <3C7E7CAD.7070504@mail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:26:42 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD Boeing Kit (WinNT; U) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20657 Date: 2002-03-01T17:26:42+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > > I know I have a visceral dislike for the Pascal-style languages. > Pascal, Modula-N, Oberon, Ada - they all just rub me the wrong > way when I look at them. It's hard for me to appreciate that Ada > is intended to be reader-friendly when my brain is going "yuck" > whenever I look at some code. > > Hmm. Wirth, Ichbiah, you - maybe it's some sort of Europe/America > thing :-) No, it's primarily the difference between coders and software engineers. -- Jeffrey Carter