From: Ada BRL <ada.brl.2011@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Interrupts handling in ADA
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:53:30 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2011-12-13T04:53:30-08:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: jc0sn1$1lnb$1@adenine.netfront.net
On 11 Dic, 00:15, Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter....@spam.not.acm.org>
wrote:
> On 12/10/2011 01:43 PM, Ada @ BRL wrote:
>
>
>
> > ADA.
>
> Is that the American Dental Association, the Americans with Disabilities Act, or
> is there a British acronym I'm not aware of?
>
> Ada is named for Augusta Ada King, née Byron, Countess of Lovelace, born on this
> date in 1815, who wrote programs for Babbage's analytical engine and so may be
> the first programmer. It's not an acronym.
>
> As others have pointed out, when using a high-level language like Ada, one
> should use high-level mechanisms provided by the language, not the low-level
> mechanisms you'd use when using a low-level language like C or its descendants.
>
> --
> Jeff Carter
> "You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy,
> and I bet he was glad to get rid of it."
> Horse Feathers
> 47
>
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Sorry...I haven't paid much attention on it... =) I know that's the
name of Ada (not ADA) Lovelace =).
You know, english people like very much acronyms, so I've found
somewhere ADA instead of Ada as well...
Bye!
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-10 20:43 Interrupts handling in ADA Ada @ BRL
2011-12-10 21:13 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-12-10 22:09 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-12-10 22:27 ` Simon Wright
2011-12-11 20:21 ` Martin Dowie
2011-12-13 13:51 ` Ada BRL
2011-12-13 23:18 ` Martin Dowie
2011-12-13 14:11 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-12-13 14:54 ` Simon Wright
2011-12-13 15:06 ` Ada BRL
2011-12-13 21:49 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-12-13 23:18 ` Martin Dowie
2011-12-13 12:47 ` Ada BRL
2011-12-13 15:07 ` Simon Wright
2011-12-13 15:23 ` Ada BRL
2011-12-13 18:14 ` Simon Wright
2011-12-13 18:56 ` Ada BRL
2011-12-13 19:56 ` Bill Findlay
2011-12-13 22:15 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-12-13 15:34 ` Simon Wright
2011-12-13 17:55 ` Ada BRL
2011-12-13 18:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-12-13 19:01 ` Ada BRL
2011-12-13 19:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-12-13 18:24 ` Simon Wright
2011-12-11 0:15 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-12-13 12:53 ` Ada BRL [this message]
2011-12-11 9:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-12-13 13:11 ` Ada BRL
2011-12-13 14:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-12-13 14:51 ` Ada BRL
2011-12-13 15:02 ` Ada BRL
2011-12-13 15:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-12-13 18:51 ` Ada BRL
2011-12-13 19:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-12-13 23:32 ` georg bauhaus
2011-12-11 12:04 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-12-13 14:08 ` Ada BRL
2011-12-12 3:19 ` anon
2011-12-12 9:12 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-12-13 13:36 ` Ada BRL
2011-12-12 15:23 ` björn lundin
2011-12-13 13:38 ` Ada BRL
2011-12-13 13:56 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-12-13 14:10 ` Ada BRL
2011-12-13 13:31 ` Ada BRL
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