Re: Is Ada likely to survive ?

["Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96" <condicma@PWFL.COM>]

John English <je@BTON.AC.UK> writes:
>Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96 (condicma@PWFL.COM) wrote:
>:     [...] There's a non-trivial
>:     number of people who keep alive Shakespearian English and some of
>:     them get paid pretty darned well for doing so (Ask Charleton
>:     Heston to come speak some Shakespear at you and see what the bill
>:     is likely to be :-)
>
>Charlton Heston doing Shakespeare? Ugh! That's like asking a
>Cobol programmer to write Ada, or Neil Diamond to sing Gilbert
>and Sullivan... :-)
>
    Well, being an ex-Cobol programmer (recovering Cobol programmer?)
    who writes Ada, I suppose I should take umbrage ;-)

    Actually, having read Charlton Heston's autobiography, I know that
    he has always had a keen interest in Shakespeare and has done
    quite a bit of it on stage. Of course, that doesn't automatically
    make him good at it, but it does mean he has had ample practice.
    And the bill for his time is going to be hefty even if he does it
    badly :-) (Mel Gibson did a passable job of Hamlet, eh?)

    As for Neil Diamond mixing it up with Gilbert and Sullivan - I
    suppose you have a point. But I was never particularly fond of any
    of those guys.

    Of course, all this is rather badly off-topic. (My having lost
    interest in trying to make my point - whatever that was,
    originally. Oh yeah. That languages never really "die" - or at
    least we'd better have a good understanding of what it means to be
    "dead" before trying to answer the question: "Is Ada likely to
    survive?" - which, I seem to recall, was the subject line of all
    this, wasn't it?) Off-topic, yet entertaining.

    MDC

Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer     ATT:        561.796.8997
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