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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2dbec9f6209e8604 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mdw@cs.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh) Subject: Re: What kind of people like Ada? Date: 1995/04/20 Message-ID: <3n6282$2o3@thokk.cs.cornell.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 101283283 references: <3mjo43$aca@tali.hsc.colorado.edu> <3n3um2$s0i@salyko.cube.net> organization: Cornell CS Robotics and Vision Laboratory, Ithaca, NY 14850 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1995-04-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3n3um2$s0i@salyko.cube.net>, Oliver Kellogg wrote: >For a popular perception of what kind of people program in Ada, turn >to chapter 1.4.3 ("Programming languages and utilities") of "Linux >Installation and Getting Started", version 2.1.1, by Matt Welsh. >The second paragraph says: > >" Besides C and C++, many other compiled and interpreted programming > languages have been ported to Linux, such as Smalltalk, FORTRAN, Pascal, > LISP, Scheme, and Ada (if you're masochistic enough to program in Ada -- > we're not going to stop you.) " I wrote the book quoted above, and have been receiving some interesting flames since this was posted to comp.lang.ada. I'd like to point out that the book described above is a _free_ manual distributed via the Internet, which I provide as a service to the Linux community. In addition, I take a tongue-in-cheek approach to many subjects in the book, and the above comment about Ada was meant primarily as a joke. I come from the school of extremist C and UNIX hackers, and tend to chide just about anything else. Obviously, readers of this group have differing opinions on this matter. That's fine---I'm not asking anyone to agree with me. Just don't take it so seriously. It's a joke. M. Welsh