From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid>
Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant)
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 21:04:43 -0400
Date: 2013-09-28T21:04:43-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52477cab$12$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 524002d3$0$6553$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net
In <524002d3$0$6553$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net>, on
09/23/2013
at 10:59 AM, Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> said:
>Your description of what Ada is about sounds very much like a
>description of planned economy in Stalinist states of not long ago.
>8-)
My reading of history is that stalin gave no consideration whatsoever
to the people who had to maintain what he decreed. If something didn't
work, it was off to the gulag for them, not a reevaluation of his
planning. But "Peter and the Commissar" applies equally well to the
corporate world.
--
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-20 22:18 Anti-Ada FUD (rant) krfkeith
2013-09-20 22:47 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-09-20 23:32 ` John B. Matthews
2013-09-21 12:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-22 0:47 ` gautier_niouzes
2013-09-22 21:24 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 4:43 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 5:14 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-09-23 6:05 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 23:19 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-09-24 7:10 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 7:00 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 7:55 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 8:31 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 8:37 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 8:52 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 8:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-23 11:31 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-29 1:04 ` Shmuel Metz [this message]
2013-09-24 1:40 ` Paul Rubin
2013-09-24 7:05 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-24 7:34 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-24 7:49 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-24 10:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-24 10:38 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-24 15:39 ` Paul Rubin
2013-09-28 23:28 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-23 5:55 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 6:12 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 7:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-23 8:36 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 9:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-23 9:39 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 12:16 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 12:54 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 14:32 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 22:06 ` Peter C. Chapin
2013-09-29 1:00 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-23 7:26 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-24 6:03 ` Shark8
2013-09-24 7:51 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-26 20:58 ` erlo
2013-09-24 6:38 ` krfkeith
2013-09-24 23:18 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-09-28 6:21 ` Shark8
2013-09-28 14:40 ` Per Sandberg
2013-09-28 21:54 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
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