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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.224.93.19 with SMTP id t19mr9643044qam.3.1379921211323; Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:26:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.49.1.112 with SMTP id 16mr21659qel.7.1379921211306; Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:26:51 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!d5no1509117qap.0!news-out.google.com!gv3ni1143qab.0!nntp.google.com!d5no1578347qap.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:26:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=105.236.242.232; posting-account=p-xPhAkAAADjHQWEO7sFME2XBdF1P_2H NNTP-Posting-Host: 105.236.242.232 References: <2f813569-5ff8-4c20-a5ab-8538e6514906@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <9e495d44-1da7-4dd7-a784-95a4803ebbde@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant) From: Peter Brooks Injection-Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 07:26:51 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:17231 Date: 2013-09-23T00:26:51-07:00 List-Id: On Monday, 23 September 2013 07:55:53 UTC+2, Shark8 wrote: > On Sunday, September 22, 2013 10:43:36 PM UTC-6, Peter Brooks wrote: >=20 > > On Sunday, 22 September 2013 23:24:24 UTC+2, Shark8 wrote: >=20 > > >=20 >=20 > > > Tell me about it; that's one of the biggest turn-offs I encountered i= n school. There's a portion of a rant in the Unix-Hater's Handbook which cl= aims that Unix had stunted development/advancement in OSes and with that at= titude I encountered I don't doubt it (or that the same is [mostly] true of= C/C++). >=20 > > If a proper APSE had been developed, I'm sure it would have displaced U= nix. >=20 > If by ASPE you mean an Ada Programming Support Environment, then there wa= s the R-1000. I found a pretty interesting website/blog about a guy's memor= ies of using it. >=20 I didn't mean an IDE, though at would be part of an ASPE. Unix is the CSPE.