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,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52fd60a337c05842 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-16 15:26:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D0D106A.842AB044@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture The Emperor's Old Clothes References: <3D0B44B0.6000805@telepath.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:25:46 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1024266367 151.168.144.162 (Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:26:07 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:26:07 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26095 Date: 2002-06-16T17:25:46-05:00 List-Id: > 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