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,f51e93dacd9c7fca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-20 05:32:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!cox.net!p02!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D11C9ED.4010709@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: status of Ada STL? References: <3D0D18D5.2020601@telepath.com> <4519e058.0206170611.260a3951@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0206180630.b6ef8cd@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0206190635.48fe03a5@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:27:14 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1024576034 68.12.51.201 (Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:27:14 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:27:14 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26475 Date: 2002-06-20T12:27:14+00:00 List-Id: Russ wrote: > You have a lots of knifty tricks, don't you. By talking about The truth is often inconvienent, isn't it? > "software in use", you can pretend that dying languages are still > thriving. By the same trick, I suppose I could tell my boss that I In what way is Cobol "dying"? Last I heard, there was more new Cobol being written every year that there probabaly is Python code in existence. I'll try this once again: Just because you don't use it and don't come across it much yourself, doesn't mean a language isn't quite healthy. > strong, you must live in an ivory tower somewhere. Modula I don't know > about, but I certainly don't hear much about it. If it is still That's the exact problem isn't it? You can't just assume that anything you don't hear about in your work must not be thriving or important.