From: Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 09:52:12 +0100
Date: 2013-09-23T09:52:12+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CE65BFCC.371D6%yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: l1oukm$cuu$1@speranza.aioe.org
On 23/09/2013 09:37, in article l1oukm$cuu$1@speranza.aioe.org, "Bill
Richards" <billrich@gmx.com> wrote:
> On 2013-09-23, Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> Was that *whole* post tongue-in-cheek?
>
> Not at all. UNIX just happened. C just happened. Personally I have no use
> for either. I simply prefer good designs and discipline to the sloppy
> expedience of UNIX. If it weren't free as in doesn't cost money, UNIX/Linux
> wouldn't have been able to blot out most of the native species.
Irreconcilable world views are at play here, I think.
> I prefer Adam's words about knowing who to thank when the
> plane doesn't crash.
God? Really?
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Bill Findlay
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-20 22:18 Anti-Ada FUD (rant) krfkeith
2013-09-20 22:47 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-09-20 23:32 ` John B. Matthews
2013-09-21 12:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-22 0:47 ` gautier_niouzes
2013-09-22 21:24 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 4:43 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 5:14 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-09-23 6:05 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 23:19 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-09-24 7:10 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 7:00 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 7:55 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 8:31 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 8:37 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 8:52 ` Bill Findlay [this message]
2013-09-23 8:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-23 11:31 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-29 1:04 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-24 1:40 ` Paul Rubin
2013-09-24 7:05 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-24 7:34 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-24 7:49 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-24 10:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-24 10:38 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-24 15:39 ` Paul Rubin
2013-09-28 23:28 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-23 5:55 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 6:12 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 7:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-23 8:36 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 9:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-23 9:39 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 12:16 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 12:54 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 14:32 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 22:06 ` Peter C. Chapin
2013-09-29 1:00 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-23 7:26 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-24 6:03 ` Shark8
2013-09-24 7:51 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-26 20:58 ` erlo
2013-09-24 6:38 ` krfkeith
2013-09-24 23:18 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-09-28 6:21 ` Shark8
2013-09-28 14:40 ` Per Sandberg
2013-09-28 21:54 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
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