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-Thread: 103376,998480123ade4649 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.68.36.6 with SMTP id m6mr1190930pbj.4.1321922601249; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:43:21 -0800 (PST) Path: lh20ni3370pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!20g2000prp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adam Beneschan Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: will ada always be supported by gcc? Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:36:24 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <6b683dd0-3676-4859-ae0d-d9c10140f47d@20g2000prp.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1321922601 6311 127.0.0.1 (22 Nov 2011 00:43:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:43:21 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 20g2000prp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=duW0ogkAAABjRdnxgLGXDfna0Gc6XqmQ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: ARLUEHNKC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618; .NET4.0C),gzip(gfe) Xref: news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:14503 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2011-11-21T16:36:24-08:00 List-Id: On Nov 21, 3:56=A0pm, "Randy Brukardt" wrote: > "Robert A Duff" wrote in messagenews:wcchb= 1xjfic.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com... > > > leo.bre...@internode.on.net writes: > ... > > To answer your subject line, "will ada always be supported by gcc?": > > I hope not ALWAYS. =A0;-) =A0Surely 100 years from now, people will be = using > > much better programming languages than the ones we have now, including > > Ada! > > Crazy optimist. ;-) > > 100 years from now, there will be lots of people maintaining Fortran and > COBOL programs from the 1960s. It's a little dated, but back in 1999 I heard a joke about a COBOL programmer who got so frustrated fixing Y2K problems that he went nuts and had himself cryogenically frozen and set it to wake him up in 2001. But there was a Y2K bug in the cryogenic machine, and it didn't wake him up, and he remained frozen until almost eight thousand years later when some scientists unfroze him manually. When he woke up, his hosts showed him around the world of the future, and he was blown away by all the technological advances that had taken place: no more cars, because people could just teleport themselves wherever they wanted to go, no more deadly diseases like cancer, frozen pizza that tasted good, and many other things. Naturally, the guy was really impressed and told his hosts so. "But I wonder, why did you pick this moment in history to wake me up?" "Because we have a Y10K problem coming up and we heard that you knew COBOL." -- Adam (for the benefit of the two or three of you who haven't already heard it)