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: 103376,3267e6dfd3fdf056 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: An interesting ADA article.. Date: 1999/03/24 Message-ID: <7daqhb$2fd$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 458365535 References: <36F8BC77.757FC752@gecm.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x2.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Mar 24 13:49:34 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-03-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Matthew Heaney wrote: > Jonathan Hough writes: > > > Here's an interesting article... > > > > ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/sigplannotices/gigo-1997 -04.html > > More doggerel from Henry. An April Fool's joke, perhaps? I would not say the article is interesting, but it is certainly good humour. I assume no one is so humor-impaired that they would interpret it literally, but perhaps there are even those who interpret "A Modest Proposal" from Swift literally :-) One entertaining postscript is that at the original press conference in 1983 which announced the first Ada 83 validation at NYU, one of the reporters asked "if all computer programs are written in the same language and can be easily understood, won't that create a serious security issue, since it means the Soviets can easily understand our programs?" or something like that :-) :-) -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own