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: 103376,8623fab5750cd6aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.moat.net!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: <40b9c99e$0$268$edfadb0f@dread16.news.tele.dk> <40ba315a$0$254$edfadb0f@dread16.news.tele.dk> <04udnR-eHNChzSbdRVn-vw@gbronline.com> <7J0xc.7371$8k4.269106@news20.bellglobal.com> <1086630278.542788@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <8xlxc.27603$sS2.845496@news20.bellglobal.com> <1086715817.122983@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1086733411.736049@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3Auxc.11998$XY6.1296622@read2.cgocable.net> From: I R T Message-ID: <65a1gopb.fsf@pop-server.bigpond.net.au> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YDJ75pEC0/NNj68pNB7iGm2bhwU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 07:44:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.239.63 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1086767086 144.132.239.63 (Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:44:46 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:44:46 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1280 Date: 2004-06-09T07:44:46+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen writes: > The fact that no such choices exist invite suspicion that the > other languages are unsuitable for creating them. That certainly > does not help your case. Try to imagine what your statements look > like to an outsider - you are claiming that this vaporware which > doesn't exist and probably never will would be much better than > existing systems that people are already happy with, if only > somebody would write it. The mythical Magic Pudding would be so very tasty if only someone would make it. !!