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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
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Subject: Re: Misconception about Ada?
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:47:39 GMT
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In article <968qoj$f22@news.kvaerner.com>,
  "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> wrote:
>
> Cesar Rabak wrote in message <3A872501.1186F238@uol.com.br>...
> >Eric Raymon is writting a book on-line and has a particular paragraph
> >which seems to me execessively perfunctory about Ada.
> >
> >Do you think it is worth to discuss this with him?

> It is pretty useless. He probably believe that the verbosity of ada
> makes it unsuitable. It is a lost cause.

I already mentioned his jargon file trashing of Ada to him via email. He
pretty much ignored me. Given that I'd sent him other emails about such
mundane stuff as his feelings on the writings of Fredrick Brooks and the
outfit he was wearking at the Windows refund rally which did engender
nice replies, the silence on this one was deafening.

My advice to you if this annoys you: prove him wrong! Go write stuff
useful to the community in Ada. Make sure to call it "Free Software"
rather than "OpenSource" and release it under the GPL just to tick him
off. :-)

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