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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b93cf9bb2c436881,start X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,4c160984b7ee7ecd X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: ff6c8,4c160984b7ee7ecd X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,b93cf9bb2c436881,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c160984b7ee7ecd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,4c160984b7ee7ecd X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,4c160984b7ee7ecd X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: "Colin James III (The Rt Rev'd)" Subject: Re: Ada95 products to be developed with 50% taxpayer funding -- Date: 1996/04/23 Message-ID: <4lhrof$1n5@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 150928363 references: <4l8nlo$poo@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> <31783b08.300759329@snews.zippo.com> <317C469A.1593@oma.com> to: rmartin@oma.com content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: AT&T WorldNet Services mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.edu,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c x-mailer: Mozilla 1.22ATT (Windows; U; 16bit) Date: 1996-04-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Robert C. Martin" 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. >> -------------------------------------------------------- > [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: >Object Mentor | rmartin@oma.com | Object Oriented Design >14619 N Somerset Cr | Tel: (847) 918-1004 | C++ >Green Oaks IL 60048 | Fax: (847) 918-1023 | http://www.oma.com > > 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.