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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-23 15:19:56 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Ada/Pascal (was Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?) Date: 23 Nov 1994 18:19:56 -0500 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <3b0ims$f36@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <3alh02$rgo@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <3atp2k$job@eve.atm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.lang.ada:17003 comp.lang.c++:80603 Date: 1994-11-23T18:19:56-05:00 List-Id: In article , Stefan Tilkov wrote: >> Wirth had not intended it anyway. > >> For what it's worth (no pun intended), C and C++ don't have a fundamental > >It might interest you that the correct (German) pronunciation of "Wirth" sounds >more like "weird" than "worth". Actually, Niklaus Wirth has always given English-speakers permission to call him by name ("veert") or call him by value ("worth"). :-) (I'm not sure how to call him by reference...) Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5919 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ada on the World-Wide Web: http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Non illegitimi carborundum." (Don't let the bastards grind you down.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------