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: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-12 18:38:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.news2me.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.ada Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and whyit collapsed and died) Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 18:39:45 -0700 Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering Message-ID: <3EC04CE1.27E68206@adaworks.com> References: <9fa75d42.0305080606.70eebec@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305090522.29c56a04@posting.google.com> <3EBEAEB5.2B2C8AEF@adaworks.com> Reply-To: richard@adaworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 3f.bb.80.8d Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 13 May 2003 01:39:12 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37256 Date: 2003-05-13T01:39:12+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > Over in the C++ newsgroups people like to kid Andrei Alexandrescu > for being the only person in the world who can make a living writing > C++ libraries that no compiler in existence can compile. Which is too bad because Alexandrescu's work could almost persuade me to be a little less cynical about C++. His book is really excellent. Richard Riehle