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: 103376,52fd60a337c05842 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-19 00:06:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!62.47.65.82!not-for-mail From: Peter Amey Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture The Emperor's Old Clothes Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 08:07:25 +0100 Organization: Praxis Critical Systems Message-ID: <3D102DAD.7B021147@praxis-cs.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.47.65.82 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1024470386 9345084 62.47.65.82 (16 [69815]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26358 Date: 2002-06-19T08:07:25+01:00 List-Id: Gautier direct_replies_not_read wrote: > > Lyle McKennot: > > >How about the 1980 ACM Turing Award lecture "The Emperor's Old > >Clothes" ? > > Thank you, _that's_ a nice troll for today! > > (however, it's amusing to read it with today's eyes, > especially what happened to the minimalist creations > coming from ivory towers) > The paper was an influence on the decision to create SPARK. As the good Professor Hoare observed there really is a nice, simple, secure language hiding inside Ada. It is also a tribute to Ada's designers that the creation of SPARK was possible; there is no comparable language lurking within C++ for example. Peter