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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,bdf72b2364b0da13 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.68.75.170 with SMTP id d10mr5904769pbw.6.1323781638751; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:07:18 -0800 (PST) Path: lh20ni17786pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!w1g2000vba.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ada BRL Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Interrupts handling in ADA Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:53:30 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <782ca4e2-16fb-467c-9bd9-71fce1897a50@w1g2000vba.googlegroups.com> References: <30143086.6.1323549838421.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbfq24> NNTP-Posting-Host: 164.11.203.58 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1323781638 1022 127.0.0.1 (13 Dec 2011 13:07:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:07:18 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w1g2000vba.googlegroups.com; posting-host=164.11.203.58; posting-account=yig7mwoAAAAAcduNbH7Dpal1sjCSAijA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUARELSCNK X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2,gzip(gfe) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2011-12-13T04:53:30-08:00 List-Id: On 11 Dic, 00:15, Jeffrey Carter 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, n=E9e Byron, Countess of Lovelace, bor= n on this > date in 1815, who wrote programs for Babbage's analytical engine and so m= ay be > the first programmer. It's not an acronym. > > As others have pointed out, when using a high-level language like Ada, on= e > should use high-level mechanisms provided by the language, not the low-le= vel > mechanisms you'd use when using a low-level language like C or its descen= dants. > > -- > 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 > > --- Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net/ - Complaints to n...@netfron= t.net --- Sorry...I haven't paid much attention on it... =3D) I know that's the name of Ada (not ADA) Lovelace =3D). You know, english people like very much acronyms, so I've found somewhere ADA instead of Ada as well... Bye!