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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-13 14:47:45 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:47:37 -0600 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:47:36 -0500 From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <7ridnSngofCUybDd4p2dnA@comcast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.77.160 X-Trace: sv3-tYuOjnk1zsfaPYQqS3c9/X+tAw3BPxm8515Y5ZfKT3sSjjdDUb6XG5YsOpuJfnatIHXrZQjicYij6Xv!NfSvdvgu5uyAwEmIlcCXfgtD0sc0vYA75eDWWwCPN5QVlatjNNhR7VqnXajnlg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5553 Date: 2004-02-13T17:47:36-05:00 List-Id: Alexander Kopilovitch wrote: > Robert I. Eachus wrote: > Do you know a big country, in which own military history isn't > glorious? -:) France of course, but not in French. Do you know of any other country where the man touted as the most brilliant General (Napolean) is more famous for his losses than his victories. (Waterloo and the retreat from Moscow.) To be fair, there have been many Generals who showed their true mettle when the chips were down, and that tends to happen in close battles. >>There >>have been a few languages from non-English speaking areas. SIMSCRIPT >>has a Scandinavian heritage. > > It is somehow strange that you did not mention Simula-67 here. Oops! You are right. And I also mixed up Wirth and Dijkstra. -- Robert I. Eachus "The war on terror is a different kind of war, waged capture by capture, cell by cell, and victory by victory. Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty." -- George W. Bush