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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Pat Rogers" Subject: Re: Is there a language that Dijkstra liked? Date: 1998/09/21 Message-ID: <6u6k78$gmg$1@uuneo.neosoft.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 393446090 References: <6rf59b$2ud$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6sjnlu$83l$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6skfs7$2s6$1@hirame.wwa.com> <35F252DD.5187538@earthlink.net> <6t4dge$t8u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6t5mtp$4ho$1@news.indigo.ie> <35FFE58C.5727@ibm.net> <3600E72E.24C93C94@cl.cam.ac.uk> <6trcar$nq1$1@uuneo.neosoft.com> <6u54oi$79u$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Peter Hermann wrote in message <6u54oi$79u$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>... >followup reduced to comp.lang.ada : > >In comp.lang.ada Pat Rogers wrote: >> Perhaps you are thinking of that by C.A.R. Hoare. A very similar >> situation, after his Turing Award lecture. The book is "Ada >> Language and Methodology". In the foreword Hoare says of Ada, among >> other nice things: > >> "... the language incorporates many excellent structural features... >> ...one can now look forward to a rapid and widespread improvement in >> programming practice, both from those who use the language and from >> those who study its concepts and structures. ..." > >> Authors: Watt, David; Wichmann, Brian; Findlay, William >> Prentice-Hall International Series on Computer Science, 1987 >> ISBN 0-13-004078-9 > >I am afraid nobody would buy an 11-year old book about Ada83. I miss your point, Peter. I was simply trying to set the record straight about which person had the supposed "change of heart" with respect to Ada in the foreword to an Ada book. Although I think it is a good book, I too doubt that many would buy it today, for obvious reasons. If you mean that the age of the book (and the subject of Ada 83) will prevent people from seeing the foreword, I agree again, and that is why I included the quotes and the bibliographic information (i.e., so it can be used to refute the "Hoare hated Ada, just read his Turing Award lecture" junk). -- pat Patrick Rogers progers@acm.org http://www.neosoft.com/~progers