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: 103376,5faad1722103f6a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Martin Dowie" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:09:52 +0100 Organization: BAE SYSTEMS Message-ID: <40c6b68b$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> References: X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de oBQmB15x7+uLsLojvfXjegqxRqt0Zf2gfnUxDTMPdzChhtXszF X-Orig-Path: baen1673807.greenlnk.net!baen1673807!not-for-mail X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: baen1673807.greenlnk.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1276 Date: 2004-06-09T08:09:52+01:00 List-Id: "Richard Riehle" wrote in message news:x1yxc.7635$uX2.6317@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net... > The fact that Jackson "was quite happy with COBOL" is simply an indication > of the widespread stupidity regarding the shortcomings of the earlier forms > of the language. No intelligent contemporary programmer would want to > return to hideous mess of tangled code so typical of pre-ANSI-85. There was also the point that there were JSP tools that automated the generation of all the control structures. Once the data structures were drawn, all the 'programmer' was left to do was fill in the sequential statements, the branch conditions and the loop termination conditions and BINGO an executable appeared. -- Martin