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,efe03f20164a417b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-15 07:39:35 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!mvb.saic.com!buckie.ucha!tali.hsc.colorado.edu!boulder!news.coop.net!news.den.mmc.com!iplmail.orl.mmc.com!usenet Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada myths (was: An observation of Ada (may offend)) Message-ID: <3k71nn$g30@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> From: Theodore Dennison Date: 15 Mar 1995 15:39:35 GMT References: <3k00no$8qv@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: IPL InterNetNews site NNTP-Posting-Host: payday.orl.mmc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-URL: news:VLADIMIR.95Mar13204932@speedy.intrepid.com Date: 1995-03-15T15:39:35+00:00 List-Id: Vladimir Vukicevic writes: > > > > Enough of my griping. Back to the assignments... > > Speaking of why people think Ada is not a good language... it'd be nice > if someone collected the many myths about Ada, and collected them all > together for distribution to the unbelievers. :-) This would simplify > telling people about Ada, especially if all they've heard was that it's > a "big ugly ancient language used by the government", or that it's too > 'huge' to be worth doing anything with. > My personal favorite is: "Ada leaks memory". Yup. I just sat the box right here on my desk, and look! Memory is dripping off my desk and collecting in a big pool on the floor here. I'd better go get a mop before it soaks into the carpet... T.E.D. (sarcastic comment repeated witout permission)