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_50,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!SEI.CMU.EDU!Judy.Bamberger From: Judy.Bamberger@SEI.CMU.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada vs C vs Reality ... Message-ID: <8911151442.AA09853@fa.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 15 Nov 89 14:42:09 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet List-Id: You all got me again ... Discussions about Ada abound with references to Ada Follies (are you sure you didn't attend or write some of these yourselves?). Enjoy! (Yes - those of you who ordered video tapes - they are being copied; should be shipped after Thanksgiving.) Judy Bamberger Software Engineering Institute Pittsburgh PA 15213 bamberg@sei.cmu.edu PS - Who was it that said that " ... truth is always strange, stranger than fiction"? --------------- >From the skit: A vs C Programmers Teacher: C tells you that the C language is absolutely perfect. MOREOVER, it can be improved by adding *classy* extensions, preprocessors, etc. A admits that, unfortunately, there are some known deficiencies in the A language. HOWEVER, you are not allowed to change it in any way! --------------- >From the song: Help Me, Grady (To the tune of ``Help Me, Rhonda'' by the Beach Boys) (Verse:) Information hiding - now that I can understand. Data abstraction, too; it all sounds so fine and grand. But Ada just makes a pretense To support inheritance! So, help me Grady; help me get it into my head! Chorus: Help me, Grady; help help me Grady; (6) Help me, Grady, yeah, get it into my head!