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 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 18:40:45 -0700 Organization: Nightsong/Fort GNOX Message-ID: <7xeh8fxahu.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> References: <2f813569-5ff8-4c20-a5ab-8538e6514906@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d94d289a4df6ae47ea4d4f8b2ae808e7"; logging-data="7480"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19XX+njhCMcb4OZKxPWsnOC" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OXCMMAyfqBcG16lo9RGFSiIcjvs= sha1:RHGgyfM/wf6Rgn3DEMzItEpIDNE= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:17247 Date: 2013-09-23T18:40:45-07:00 List-Id: Bill Richards writes: > Ada is about order, planning, design and then implementation, doing > things correctly with a long term view and thinking about the next guy > or guys who'll maintain it. If they spent as much time polishing their > code as they do their silly communist license boilerplate we'd have > quite a different situation by now ;-) I wonder if you use the Adacore GNAT compiler, and if so, where you think most of the code in it came from. Hint: http://www.adacore.com/gnatpro/toolsuite/