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: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-02 06:20:44 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,misc.misc Subject: Re: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit addressing and OOP Date: 2 May 2003 06:20:44 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <9fa75d42.0305020520.20859901@posting.google.com> References: <9fa75d42.0304300412.3c9f8157@posting.google.com> <98BC68183770643E.43B22CFE5F4D5EFD.5566989BE627964B@lp.airnews.net> <9fa75d42.0305010645.7a5572ed@posting.google.com> <3EB1C603.7788E194@adaworks.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 32.97.239.29 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1051881644 7238 127.0.0.1 (2 May 2003 13:20:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 May 2003 13:20:44 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:63041 comp.object:62540 comp.lang.ada:36854 misc.misc:13897 Date: 2003-05-02T13:20:44+00:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote in message news:<3EB1C603.7788E194@adaworks.com>... > soft-eng wrote: > > > "John R. Strohm" wrote in message news:<98BC68183770643E.43B22CFE5F4D5EFD.5566989BE627964B@lp.airnews.net>... > > > > > Why don't you *tell* us where your views on Ada come from? > > > > > > So far, you have said a great deal that suggests that you have NO actual > > > experience with Ada. > > > > Mostly peripheral and theoretical. Taught Ada to graduate students for > > evening class. Had to learn about it from an academic viewpoint. > > One more amateur teaching Ada with no experience using it on > projects. There was so much of this going around that no one > should be suprised that so many students came away from their > Ada classes with a distorted view of the language. > > Richard Riehle There weren't any Ada projects at that time to have experience in! Believe it or not, that's how teaching of new languages has to start, particularly of languages like Ada with no existing industrial base. But you are still insisting on arguing by insult, which I have little interest in because it merely shows to me you have nothing valid to say.