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, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-01 18:13:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: Richard Riehle Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit addressing and OOP Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 18:12:35 -0700 Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering Message-ID: <3EB1C603.7788E194@adaworks.com> References: <9fa75d42.0304300412.3c9f8157@posting.google.com> <98BC68183770643E.43B22CFE5F4D5EFD.5566989BE627964B@lp.airnews.net> <9fa75d42.0305010645.7a5572ed@posting.google.com> Reply-To: richard@adaworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 3f.bb.a8.08 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 2 May 2003 01:13:07 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:63015 comp.object:62511 comp.lang.ada:36824 misc.misc:13880 Date: 2003-05-02T01:13:07+00:00 List-Id: soft-eng wrote: > "John R. Strohm" wrote in message news:<98BC68183770643E.43B22CFE5F4D5EFD.5566989BE627964B@lp.airnews.net>... > > > Why don't you *tell* us where your views on Ada come from? > > > > So far, you have said a great deal that suggests that you have NO actual > > experience with Ada. > > Mostly peripheral and theoretical. Taught Ada to graduate students for > evening class. Had to learn about it from an academic viewpoint. One more amateur teaching Ada with no experience using it on projects. There was so much of this going around that no one should be suprised that so many students came away from their Ada classes with a distorted view of the language. Richard Riehle