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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1a44c40a66c293f3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Preferred OS, processor family for running embedded Ada? References: <1172192349.419694.274670@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1172239820.896603.222120@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1172409051.195703.233490@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1172409051.195703.233490@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s22 1172426019 12.201.97.213 (Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:53:39 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:53:39 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:53:39 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9534 Date: 2007-02-25T17:53:39+00:00 List-Id: roderick.chapman@googlemail.com wrote: > In retirement. He did give the after-dinner speech at the VSTTE > conference > in Zurich in 2005, and he was brilliant. I wish I could remember > exactly what he said about C++ - I think the word "abomination" was > in there somewhere... :-) Sounds like a good candidate for a signature. Would a transcript be available anywhere? -- Jeff Carter "When Roman engineers built a bridge, they had to stand under it while the first legion marched across. If programmers today worked under similar ground rules, they might well find themselves getting much more interested in Ada!" Robert Dewar 62