Admiral Tuttle (Should be silent ad for Oracle)

[Colin James 0621 <cjames@dsc.blm.gov>]

  
The fact that David Guaspari does not post the source of the alleged
transcript is on its face subterfuge in my opinion.
  
The email path of the message is apparently from "oracorp.com", and
Oracle has a lot invested in parallel processing to speed up the
kludge performance of an interpreted query language.
  
If the message is authentic, then the chief scientist mentioned has
most certainly misinformed the Admiral.  What is said about Ada-9X
features of C++ or C on multiple processors is mistaken.
The extent of the misinformation about C++, for example, has now
infiltrated AT&T's C courses where it is now taught that C++ IS a
compiler (it's a precompiler that churns out C code with no regard
to the C compiler backend) and that C++ makes faster running code
than C (it does not because anything done in C++ can be programmed
to run faster in C).  Also the inference that the Ada Mandate is to
be abolished or lifted is not in keeping with other higher brass at
the Pentagon.  Ask Ralph Crafts about that one (no flames Greg).

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