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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a3ca574fc2007430 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Dale Stanbrough Subject: Re: Ada and Automotive Industry Date: 1996/11/07 Message-ID: <55tmue$i3j$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 195148993 distribution: world references: <55ea3g$m1j@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <32812D6B.ABD@hso.link.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 x-xxmessage-id: organization: RMIT, Melbourne, Australia mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: James Thiele: >When I did Ada work at Boeing, I found a quote calling >Ada "PASCAL for lawyers." The LRM for Ada 83 was a huge, >dense document full of legalese. I see you write your reply in English, rather than Esparanto. Last time i looked, a grammar book for English "was a huge dense document full of legalese". Last time I looked at _any_ ISO standard it was full of legalese. So why didn't you just get a textbook? Dale