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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.224.2.68 with SMTP id 4mr3491270qai.1.1379717256221; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:47:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.44.67 with SMTP id c3mr207329igm.13.1379717256122; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:47:36 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!d5no1248159qap.0!news-out.google.com!gv3ni775qab.0!nntp.google.com!d5no1308543qap.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:47:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2f813569-5ff8-4c20-a5ab-8538e6514906@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=RxNzCgoAAACA5KmgtFQuaU-WaH7rjnAO NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 References: <2f813569-5ff8-4c20-a5ab-8538e6514906@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <497fee2d-b71b-4227-8bcc-7d5cfd47de57@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant) From: Adam Beneschan Injection-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:47:36 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Original-Bytes: 1929 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:183389 Date: 2013-09-20T15:47:35-07:00 List-Id: On Friday, September 20, 2013 3:18:29 PM UTC-7, krfk...@gmail.com wrote: I realize this is just a rant (against people who deserve to be ranted agai= nst), but ... > Disastrous? By what metric? The DoD seems to be doing fine. Ever taken an= airplane flight and not crashed? Well, Ada seems to be doing well there as= well!=20 Dunno about anyone else, but whenever I take an airplane flight and don't c= rash, I thank God, the pilot, the aviation engineers who build the planes, = the maintenance crew, and the air traffic controllers, approximately in tha= t order. Crediting any software, let alone the language it's written in, i= s really, really, really way down on the list. -- Adam