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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5faad1722103f6a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s02.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: <40BF141F.8020001@noplace.com> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: <5zJvc.40502$eY2.9365@attbi_s02> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.132.82 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: attbi_s02 1086285121 24.6.132.82 (Thu, 03 Jun 2004 17:52:01 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 17:52:01 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 17:52:01 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1078 Date: 2004-06-03T17:52:01+00:00 List-Id: Two (unfortunate) data points: I got an email ACM Queue subscriber survey the other day. Under "languages used" I had to use Other and fill in Ada. Then Queue magazine arrived with an article on security and programming languages. It says "Remember Ada? What a disaster!" and then goes on to suggest things like turning on compiler warnings and having automatically inserted code to check for memory usage errors in C .. C# code. Sigh.