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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d79d55198abf90d8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-09-19 18:00:08 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!xfer13.netnews.com!netnews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Conditional Compilation Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:49:49 GMT Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. Message-ID: <8q91j7$qq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <7FEFA9E5E3B3C4A5.90418F4BE7D5AE58.48E094CF81EC6BD3@lp.airnews.net> <39C7C748.4A533989@netwood.net> <39C7E700.4A47DF47@SPAMM.example.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.240 X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Sep 20 00:49:49 2000 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; I) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x71.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.240 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:731 Date: 2000-09-20T00:49:49+00:00 List-Id: In article <39C7E700.4A47DF47@SPAMM.example.com>, Jeff Allen wrote: > It was humor!!! Ah, but we really have a hard time identifying it as humour, because you can easily find this type of viewpoint expressed seriously. For example, I heard high up people in the DoD in charge of information processing systems seriously claim that no one would do any more programming any more, we would simply put our "business models" into the 4GL tool and that would be it :-) Anyway, do us a favor, this is a strange field, and we cannot conclude that just because somone is saying something ludicrous that they intend it as a joke. So please add a smiley, otherwise you are likely to be confused with people who really believe some lunatic ideas :-) Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.