From: "Colin James III (The Rt Rev'd)" <cjames>
To: rmartin@oma.com
Subject: Re: Ada95 products to be developed with 50% taxpayer funding --
Date: 1996/04/23
Date: 1996-04-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4lhrof$1n5@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 317C469A.1593@oma.com
"Robert C. Martin" <rmartin@oma.com> wrote:
>Gary McKee wrote:
>>
>> In article <31783b08.300759329@snews.zippo.com>,
>> cjames@boss.bod.net (The Right Reverend Colin James III) wrote:
>>
>> > reuseic@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (ReuseIC) posted with deletions:
>> > Not one of the ten companies below is the least distinguished, nor are
>> > their products particularly distinguished.
>> >
>> > Intermetrics is famous for peddling C++ at the expense of Ada, and McKee
>> > Consulting, well, just look at the owners resume on csn.net -- what a
>> joke.
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>> My resume does include a pointer to a famous quote from FDR about the
>> relevance of people who stay on tthe sidelines and criticize those who
>> are getting the job done. Look for "a touch of attitude", also quoted
>> below.
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>> A Touch of Attitude
>>
>> Are the coyotes yapping at your heels?
>> Read what FDR is reputed to have said in an excerpt called:
>> To the Man in the Arena. <http://www.csn.net/~gmckee/man.arena.html>
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>
[ugly quotation from one of the most evil and destructive Presidents this
country has ever had; who was an Anglican, but by birth only, and
never for a second by choice]
>
>attributed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt
>
>--
>Robert C. Martin | Design Consulting | Training courses offered:
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>
>
Truly words are at a loss to describe what a bad man Robert C Martin
really is. May his legion articles and books forever be a gauge as to
what is ordinary, what is ill-bred, what is ignoble, and what is not to
be avoided at all costs in the field of object-oriented technology.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-04-19 0:00 Ada News Brief - 96-04-19.txt [1/1] ReuseIC
1996-04-20 0:00 ` Ada95 products to be developed with 50% taxpayer funding -- not very distinguished The Right Reverend Colin James III
1996-04-20 0:00 ` Ada95 products to be developed with 50% taxpayer funding -- Gary McKee
1996-04-21 0:00 ` The Right Reverend Colin James III
1996-04-22 0:00 ` Robert C. Martin
1996-04-23 0:00 ` Colin James III (The Rt Rev'd) [this message]
1996-04-23 0:00 ` Jason D. Smith
1996-04-23 0:00 ` Jason D. Smith
1996-04-23 0:00 ` Gabriel Bereny
1996-04-21 0:00 ` Ada95 products to be developed with 50% taxpayer funding -- not very distinguished Tucker Taft
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