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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ca0b11ae1c9a00cb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96" Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Date: 1998/02/18 Message-ID: <98021810380907@psavax.pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 326288544 Sender: Ada programming language Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU X-VMS-To: SMTP%"INFO-ADA@VM1.NODAK.EDU" X-VMS-Cc: CONDIC Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Joe Gwinn writes: | In article <34E91572.CE9CEED2@cs.utexas.edu>, Yongxiang Gao | wrote: | |> Now I've got 4 papers about the "complex" or "difficult" problems of Ada. |It's |> DONE! |> |> Here I don't mean you're wrong because the ideas are perhaps out-of-date. | |It would be useful if you could post the citations of the four papers you |mention on this newsgroup. Some of us would like to read them, any you |will probably also hear from the community on just what's wrong with those |papers. | I'd like to see the citations as well. However, counter-arguing the positions put forth is probably a waste of time. It sounds like this is a search for substantiation of a pre-judged position. Sort of: "I know what answer I want to come up with. Now let me find some evidence to back that up." I'm sure that Yongxiang Gao is just trying to do the work that was assigned, but it sounds as if the professor is not particularly interested in the pursuit of the truth. Pity. I always thought this was the purpose of a University - not "advocacy" through sophistry. MDC Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer Voice: 561.796.8997 Pratt & Whitney GESP, M/S 731-95, P.O.B. 109600 Fax: 561.796.4669 West Palm Beach, FL, 33410-9600 Internet: CONDICMA@PWFL.COM ============================================================================= "I filled out an application that said, 'In Case Of Emergency Notify'. I wrote 'Doctor'... What's my mother going to do?" -- Steven Wright =============================================================================