Re: Misconception about Ada?

[dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:36:33 GMT, gdemont@my-deja.com wrote:
>
>> Do you think it is worth to discuss this with him?
>
>Forget it. He has only programmed one sort of thing
>with one language on one O.S. and has had a definitive
>opinion about all the rest since 30 years...

I think it unfair to dismiss Eric S. Raymond like that. His name is
on a lot of Elisp code, several interpreters at the Retrocomputing
mueseum, fetchmail, and a Python-based compilation system for the Linux
kernel, right off the top of my head. So he has done many types of 
programms in several language, with the worst thing that can be said
is that they've all been on Un*x systems.

There is no need to badmouth someone, even when you think they are being
irrationally wrong. Whatever ESR has said about Ada doesn't automatically
invalid anything else he may have said or done.

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