Ada made the front page of Slashdot, today

Ada made the front page of Slashdot, today

[pontius]

and it's not good. Amusing perhaps, though.

Slashdot quote from The Atlanta Journal and Constitution article:
'When avionics problems crop up now, pilots must restart the entire
 system as if rebooting a personal computer.' and 'written in about
 one and a half million lines of Ada code'

So far it's been mostly Win-bashing, one Ada-positive comment. Of
course it's mostly uninformed, though a few posts do shine through.
The moderation can be funny though. One post titled, "There Is
Something Rotten in Software Engineering" talks about how Lady Ada
Lovelace and Charles Babbage began using these inherently unstable
things called 'algorithms.' Unfortunately instead of getting "Funny"
moderation it's got "Interesting".

Oh, well.

Dale Pontius
(NOT speaking for IBM)

Re: Ada made the front page of Slashdot, today

[Bobby D. Bryant]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 05:22:44 -0600, pontius wrote:

> and it's not good. Amusing perhaps, though.

Actually, it looks to me that quite a few more people are speaking
out in favor of Ada than you normally see whenever it is mentioned
on Slashdot.

Bobby Bryant
Austin, texas

Re: Ada made the front page of Slashdot, today

[Ted Dennison]

"Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu> wrote in message news:<aho31p$hlo$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>...
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 05:22:44 -0600, pontius wrote:
> 
> > and it's not good. Amusing perhaps, though.
> 
> Actually, it looks to me that quite a few more people are speaking
> out in favor of Ada than you normally see whenever it is mentioned
> on Slashdot.

I have to agree that the discussion was suprisingly positive. But
then, it probably didn't hurt any that I happened to have 5 moderator
points that day. :-)


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