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: 103376,3a9b49a9162025eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-04 10:05:51 PST Message-ID: <3E3FFFD7.5090002@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Bye-bye Ada ? References: <3E3B7BB5.A1A070@adaworks.com> <3NY_9.9226$x63.6255@nwrddc01.gnilink.net> <3E3EA605.60705@cogeco.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:00:55 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1044381655 198.96.47.195 (Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:00:55 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:00:55 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33787 Date: 2003-02-04T13:00:55-05:00 List-Id: Kevin Cline wrote: > "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote in message news:<3E3EA605.60705@cogeco.ca>... >>Hyman Rosen wrote: >>>Richard Riehle wrote: >>>>I realize the Mr. H. Rosen will disagree with this viewpoint. >>> >>>On this day, I find it hard to summon much energy for a language war. >>>I know *I* can write reasonably good software in C++. When we have >>>errors, it's due to problems in logic, not problems in the language. >>>But anyway, fine. Don't program in C++, do what you want. >> >>I should resist the temptation but... the same argument can be >>made for perl, FORTRAN and assembly language programming ;-) > > When you want a program finished today you can't do much better > than Perl. I don't have much sympathy for the OP's position on > programming languages. This month I had to learn Visual Basic. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That's quite alright-- _you_ have my full sympathy! ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg