From: Mike Paley <mike@paley.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: ADA is the most worthless language
Date: 1997/01/02
Date: 1997-01-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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gvrooman@ix.netcom.com(Gerald M Vrooman) writes:
:) I once worked for a
:) large aerospace company where they implemented typing so strict that
:) the real engineers were not allowed to divide pounds by square inches.
:) It made it a little difficult to compute psi.<g>
A good unit for measuring the cost of office floor space <bg>.
Ada, worthless - is that why it's free ? - And that could be why
universities use it !
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-12-08 0:00 ADA is the most worthless language Grizidy
1996-12-08 0:00 ` Joe & Kathy Taylor
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-12-09 0:00 ` John English
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Dan Stubbs
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-28 0:00 ` john babrick
1996-12-30 0:00 ` Gerald M Vrooman
1997-01-02 0:00 ` Mike Paley [this message]
1997-01-14 0:00 ` Sreedhar Chintalapaty
1996-12-29 0:00 ` john babrick
1996-12-11 0:00 ` John Strohm
1997-01-04 0:00 ` talarson
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-12-11 0:00 ` David Taylor
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