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From: Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com>
Subject: Re: The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture The Emperor's Old Clothes
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:25:46 -0500
Date: 2002-06-16T17:25:46-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D0D106A.842AB044@despammed.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3D0B44B0.6000805@telepath.com


> but it then got a major revision in 1995. So that lecture isn't at all
> about the language we today know as Ada.

It was about a language that did not exist at the time,
never existed in exactly that form, and which once
developed and used, eventually gathered empirical
evidence counter to Hoare's suppositions.

Besides, isn't "scathing attack" a bit of an exaggeration?

-- 
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-16 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-14  0:49 ada paper critic Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14  1:28 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14  1:43   ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14  4:53     ` David Marceau
2002-06-14  6:40       ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14  6:49       ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-14 12:18       ` Baugereau
2002-06-14 16:30         ` David Marceau
2002-06-14 17:34           ` Baugereau
2002-06-14 19:01             ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-14 19:43               ` Baugereau
2002-06-15  3:02                 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-06-15  9:49                   ` Pascal Obry
2002-06-17 15:53                     ` Dan Andreatta
2002-06-17 18:20                       ` Pascal Obry
2002-06-17 20:56                     ` Michael Bode
2002-06-17 21:18                       ` Pascal Obry
2002-06-16 21:52                   ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 20:02     ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14  3:14   ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14  4:35     ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14  8:05       ` David Marceau
2002-06-14 12:31         ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14 15:08         ` Darren New
2002-06-17  0:17           ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-14 19:05         ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-16  3:34           ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-16  3:32         ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14  8:25       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-06-14 12:19         ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 14:51           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-06-14 15:09             ` Darren New
2002-06-16 22:49               ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-06-16 15:07                 ` Jim Rogers
2002-06-17  4:06                   ` Darren New
2002-06-17  4:52                     ` Jim Rogers
2002-06-17  9:45                       ` David Marceau
2002-06-17 15:42                       ` Darren New
2002-06-17  3:59                 ` Darren New
2002-06-17 22:19                   ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-06-14 12:58       ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-14 22:16         ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-15  1:22           ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-15  0:51             ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-15 11:49               ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-15 21:45             ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-14 14:59       ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-16  3:27         ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-16 22:18           ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-16 22:38           ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 15:00       ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 20:13         ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-14 18:52       ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-15 22:03         ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-16  1:58           ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-16  3:19             ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-16 22:20         ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-17  1:57           ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-17  2:16           ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-14 15:25   ` John R. Strohm
2002-06-15  4:05     ` Lyle McKennot
2002-06-17 13:32       ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-15  4:06     ` The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture The Emperor's Old Clothes Lyle McKennot
2002-06-15 13:45       ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-15 13:55         ` Ed Falis
2002-06-15 15:03           ` Pat Rogers
2002-06-15 18:42         ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-16 22:25         ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2002-06-15 18:01       ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-06-16  1:53         ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-17 20:06           ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-06-17 20:54             ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-18 14:56               ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-18 17:08                 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-16  3:15         ` Lyle McKennot
2002-06-16  3:51           ` Pat Rogers
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2002-06-15  6:13 Gautier direct_replies_not_read
2002-06-15  8:34 ` Lyle McKennot
2002-06-15 17:32   ` Gautier
2002-06-19  7:07 ` Peter Amey
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