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From: gvrooman@ix.netcom.com(Gerald M Vrooman)
Subject: Re: ADA is the most worthless language
Date: 1996/12/30
Date: 1996-12-29T19:57:57-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5a77j5$3nh@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 32C568EA.7B8@earthlink.net


In <32C568EA.7B8@earthlink.net> john babrick <antialias@earthlink.net>
writes: 
>
>>
>> >Is there anything that ADA is good for?  Does anybody still use it?
>> >Isn't it older that Bob Dole?"
>> 
>
>It is as old as people like YOU who whine about having to learn
>a new and better technology. I am so tired of being on projects
>where "experts" cannot accept that sotftware engineer written
>Ada might be a better solution than EE written assembly code or
>unstructured C. Grow up, bonehead...
>

  I have nothing personal against Ada, but a lot depends on how much
the "software engineers" know about engineering.  I once worked for a
large aerospace company where they implemented typing so strict that
the real engineers were not allowed to divide pounds by square inches.
It made it a little difficult to compute psi.<g>

                      Jerry Vrooman





  reply	other threads:[~1996-12-30  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-12-08  0:00 ADA is the most worthless language Grizidy
1996-12-08  0:00 ` Joe & Kathy Taylor
1996-12-11  0:00   ` Robert B. Love 
1996-12-09  0:00 ` John English
1996-12-09  0:00 ` Dan Stubbs
1996-12-10  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-28  0:00     ` john babrick
1996-12-30  0:00       ` Gerald M Vrooman [this message]
1997-01-02  0:00         ` Mike Paley
1997-01-14  0:00           ` Sreedhar Chintalapaty
1996-12-29  0:00     ` john babrick
1996-12-11  0:00   ` John Strohm
1997-01-04  0:00   ` talarson
1996-12-09  0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-12-09  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-12-10  0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-12-11  0:00 ` David Taylor
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