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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5dadc78d94298b82 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-12 19:29:41 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!171.64.14.106!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!dvdeug From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Misconception about Ada? Date: 13 Feb 2001 01:41:09 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <96a3bl$aqm1@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <3A872501.1186F238@uol.com.br> <968vu1$5ku$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e5089.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (Linux) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5210 Date: 2001-02-13T01:41:09+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg