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From: progers@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Pat Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada tasking
Summary: So much for Hoare!
Message-ID: <676@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 25 May 90 18:05:01 GMT
References: <20075@grebyn.com>
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In article <20075@grebyn.com>, ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden) writes:
> 
> From: Jeffrey M. Schweiger, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA
>  
> >In his book, Hoare does not seem to be very upset with Ada, either, ...
> >   ......
>  
> Probably the DOD got to him somehow or other;  maybe put a horses head
> in bed with him like in Godfather I ...  who knows;  made him promise to
> say SOMETHING nice about Ada and the statement about semetrically
> parallel machines (like the Sequent) was probably all he could think of.
>

Well, now that Hoare has been removed from the list of supposed supporters
for this noise, with his usefulness thus lost Mr. Holden trashes his integrity.
Sheesh! 

I hope (for any of a number of reasons) that I am never considered 
a peer too. (Not likely, I know, gratefully.)

P Rogers
Software Arts and Sciences
progers@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu