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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.224.51.68 with SMTP id c4mr6515858qag.7.1379810844890; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:47:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.49.14.132 with SMTP id p4mr623095qec.2.1379810844824; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.glorb.com!d5no1436657qap.0!news-out.google.com!gv3ni775qab.0!nntp.google.com!d5no1436649qap.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:47:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2f813569-5ff8-4c20-a5ab-8538e6514906@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:120b:2c10:cb40:3d3a:db09:d81e:c8f7; posting-account=gRqrnQkAAAAC_02ynnhqGk1VRQlve6ZG NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:120b:2c10:cb40:3d3a:db09:d81e:c8f7 References: <2f813569-5ff8-4c20-a5ab-8538e6514906@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <7d8d08e9-fefb-435e-9f58-18a5e0e92031@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant) From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com Injection-Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 00:47:24 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:17221 Date: 2013-09-21T17:47:24-07:00 List-Id: > This kind of attitude is exemplified nowhere "better" than the jargon file. Before losing too much your temper, this "jargon file" is *very* old. It probably predates the first diskette and certainly its authors never saw an Ada compiler, nor found any use of a high-level language for hacking bits on their PDP-10's... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File G.