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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,25d5234e7b6ca361 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-03 05:58:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada versus language-X and "getting real work done" (was): 64 bit addressing and OOP Date: 3 Mar 2003 05:58:16 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <9fa75d42.0303030558.6fc53b9a@posting.google.com> References: <3E4E8F8C.9C096985@adaworks.com> <9fa75d42.0302250710.5549baaf@posting.google.com> <3E5C7033.BD5DC462@adaworks.com> <9fa75d42.0302260618.7506cba7@posting.google.com> <3E5CF5C6.84822F57@adaworks.com> <9fa75d42.0302270726.665fee77@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0302280615.3f6640c3@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 32.97.239.23 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1046699896 19477 127.0.0.1 (3 Mar 2003 13:58:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Mar 2003 13:58:16 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:59530 comp.object:58806 comp.lang.ada:34825 Date: 2003-03-03T13:58:16+00:00 List-Id: softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) wrote in message news:<9fa75d42.0302280615.3f6640c3@posting.google.com>... > xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) wrote in message news:... > > > specifically to escape having to convert a shop of die-hard > > Fortran programmers to be Ada programmers. Their exemption > > Which is of course, a piece of cake. To convert die-hard > Fortran programmers to be Ada programmers. > > That's what I meant by the "get the task done" crowd. > > The Fortran programmers didn't want to learn > Ada doesn't mean they were stupid. It just > might mean they were very involved in the > equations and stuff, rather than the computer > language aspect of it. > > Your way -- the group spends lots of time and > money on trying to teach Ada to Fortran programmers. > A lot of Fortran programmers move on, the > continuity is completely disrupted... Just > so Xanthian can be happy that rules were > followed to the t. Actually, come of the think of it, the rules were undoubtedly followed to the crossing of every t, and the dotting of every i. Why? Because you were displaced within 24 hours. Given that you had lodged a complaint, if the commanding officer had bent any rules on which he could have been impaled, he would not have been able to get away with removing you that fast. Probably the regulations did not require him to order software that didn't exist, even if it added only 10% to the overall cost. So you could have bet your job (which you did) that the commanding officer was no fool about following all the rules.