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: 103376,81791db8aae86f68 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-06 06:41:24 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Job Opportunity - Repost Date: 5 Mar 1995 21:58:31 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800 Message-ID: <3je197$er6@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <3j7fn7$n4r@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3jdtm4$rmf@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com Date: 1995-03-05T21:58:31-06:00 List-Id: In article <3jdtm4$rmf@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote: >dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller) wrote in response to >Robert Eachus's summary of the trivium/quadrivium question: > >>Actually, in a brazen demonstration of honesty, I might suggest that >>all your respondents had a _dictionary_ of some sort :-) > >That is not a brazen demonstration of honesty, but a brazen attack on >the integrity of Eachus's (other) correspondents. As it happens, I De kie vi havas tiun ideon? My apologies if you interpreted it this way. The smiley was actually meant to imply that _I_ looked it up (and to imply that anybody could have looked it up). It was definitely not an attack on anybody's inteegrity, and I apologize publicly if you took it that way. Alas, the written medium is not quite sufficient for the nuances I meant. Milpardono, mi petas. >Klingon dictionaries are at home, with another English one. Of these, >the only one to define either of the terms is Cassell's Latin dictionary, >which defines "quadrivium" as "a place where four roads meet; a cross-roads", >which is not the relevant sense. > You must not have the trusty American Heritage Dictionary :-) -- Frustrated with C, C++, Pascal, Fortran? Ada95 _might_ be for you! For all sorts of interesting Ada95 tidbits, run the command: "finger dweller@starbase.neosoft.com | more" (or e-mail with "finger" as subj.)