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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2e71cf22768a124d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: ian@rsd.bel.alcatel.be (Ian Ward) Subject: Re: next "big" language?? (disagree) Date: 1996/06/12 Message-ID: <4plrd2$kng@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 159771018 distribution: world references: <4plb1g$da2@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> organization: Alcatel Bell Telephone reply-to: ian@rsd.bel.alcatel.be newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > ian@rsd.bel.alcatel.be (Ian Ward) writes: > >Here is, of course, a case where myself and > >Robin have failed to notice vital information > >in text with which we were presented, I made > >the wrong conclusion on what Peter, and hence > >Robin was talking about, (and mispelt, in the > >heat of typing "replied".) Robin presumably also > >in the heat of typing, mispelt "Belgium". > ---What? You made another mistake. You're attributing > to me what another writer wrote, or you imagined it. I am so sorry, I thought you said somthing like, "Ian from the UK "raplied" (sic)" when a look at the last two letters of my URL clearly says "be", not "uk". If it was not you, then I apologise. > Perhaps you should now read what you wrote: "Faults > like this happen every day . . ." > ">Faults like this happen every day when reading > >requirements, and inevitably, now and again, > >element 51, the 'last' element, of a 15 number > >array is indexed, because someone was not > >correctly assimilating the text in front of > >their eyes." It seems another mistake has been made, if it was me then I am sorry. In fact, this only reinforces my earlier statements on compilers and language design progressing to help cope with common human errors. Best regards, Ian --- Ian Ward's opinions only : ian@rsd.bel.alcatel.be It's "burgled" Mr. President, not burglarised.