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: 2002-06-22 13:27:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!west.cox.net!cox.net!p01!news2.central.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D14DD78.6000104@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> <3D127686.5030400@telepath.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 20:27:50 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.central.cox.net 1024777670 68.12.51.201 (Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:27:50 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:27:50 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26609 Date: 2002-06-22T20:27:50+00:00 List-Id: Russ wrote: > The mandate also forced many people to learn Ada and apply it. No > doubt many resented that, but many others who were forced to use Ada > must have realized that it is a good language and spread the word. No doubt forcing to high school students to read Shakespeare or Dickens created a fan or two as well. But the overall net effect is that a lot of people grew to dislike them.