Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.no> wrote in message
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> Werner Pachler wrote in message
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> >Hi all,
> >
> >did anybody read the article published by Joe Celko at
> >
> >http://www.intelligententerprise.com/993003/frm_celko.shtml
> >
> >Is he just another guy, who did not understand what Ada means?
> >
> >And why do people publish such hateful polemics...
> >
> >Have a nice day
>
>
> Joe Celko should know.
>
> Frankly I don't see how there could be a problem making a subset of
Ada 83 or
> Ada 95. Once you have the basic type and variable stuff, arithmetic,
strings,
> labels and if and goto you should have something that would be ugly
and
> running. It would resemble Ada, but it would not be pretty.

He's fifteen years out of date, if I interpret his ranting correctly.
He didn't even get the requirements documents names right.  Yeesh.