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: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-11 02:20:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.xtra.co.nz!not-for-mail From: "AG" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3BC0F75B.51D32B3@adaworks.com> <9pr8gu0tnf@drn.newsguy.com> <3BC1305D.1C6910C@worldnet.att.net> <9prfvm01cqt@drn.newsguy.com> <3BC1C7E3.46046096@worldnet.att.net> <9psm790ojt@drn.newsguy.com> <3BC1EDB1.530A3225@worldnet.att.net> <9pss2i$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu> Subject: Re: is Ada dying? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:22:16 +1300 NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.96.98.183 X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@xtra.co.nz X-Trace: news.xtra.co.nz 1002792033 203.96.98.183 (Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:20:33 NZDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:20:33 NZDT Organization: Xtra Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14228 Date: 2001-10-11T22:22:16+13:00 List-Id: "David Starner" wrote in message news:9pss2i$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu... > On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 18:17:16 GMT, James Rogers wrote: > > Look at the word "immutable". It is technically correct. At the > > same time it is not a commonly used word. The result is that many > > new Java users do not understand this statement. > > "im" - not; "mutable" - capable of mutating/changing. Is it really that > hard a word that it needs to be dumbed-down for the average programmer? Well, please note [tongue firmly in cheek] that no one claimed that a new Java user is equivalent to an average programmer as far as understanding of the above statement goes... So how about dumbing it down to the level of a new (or would-be) Java user, let them chew on that and let the programmers get on with what they do?