From: Chris Morgan <mihalis@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed?
Date: 1999/03/24
Date: 1999-03-24T00:21:02-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873e2vpfs1.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dale-2403991536470001@dale.bu.cs.rmit.edu.au
dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough) writes:
> I would agree that it is "common knowledge" that Ada was designed by
> committee in that it is a very common view held by a lot of people who
> consider it to be knowledge, and not just unverified rumour.
>
> However we all agree that it is better termed "urban myth", and I think
> this is what David Starner was trying to imply.
>
> Please don't shoot the messenger just because you don't like the
> message.
Point taken, but most serious programmers I've met don't think these
things. Often they used to be a bit curious about Ada but never quite
connected with it, and now is the perfect time since many people have
connected with Java, C++ etc and found out the truth of the matter. Or
perhaps they did try it but it was on a VAX 10 years ago and they have
no idea of the progress since.
On Usenet this myth does seem to be common, perhaps it's really true
that "if it's on the Internet, it's true, if not it doesn't exist".
Chris
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-23 0:00 Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed? Mike Silva
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Kevin
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-27 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-03-28 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-24 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1999-03-30 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-31 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-04-13 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-30 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Mike Harrison
1999-04-13 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Chris Morgan [this message]
1999-03-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-24 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-23 0:00 ` fred
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-03-25 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
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