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,f039470e8f537101 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-25 05:35:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out1.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in-sterling.nuthinbutnews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny03.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030708 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ariane5 FAQ References: <1058813341.841940@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1058816605.566685@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1058968422.225561@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F200AD0.94F79098@adaworks.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <7u9Ua.13412$634.10307@nwrdny03.gnilink.net> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 12:35:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.157.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny03.gnilink.net 1059136515 162.83.157.195 (Fri, 25 Jul 2003 08:35:15 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 08:35:15 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40803 Date: 2003-07-25T12:35:15+00:00 List-Id: Alexander Kopilovitch wrote: > As for political correctness... well, I have nothing against it, > but only if it does not obscure essential things. The entire point of your FAQ is political correctness. In this order, you are urgently campaigning that Ada, Ada programmers, and technical people have absolutely no blame in the Ariane 5 crash. In order to do this you make unsubstantiated claims which are designed to appeal to the egos and biases of Ada programmers and other technical people.