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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ee41f292779851e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-20 02:25:37 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!nntpserver.pppl.gov!princeton!gw1.att.com!fnnews.fnal.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!uunet!telesoft!kst From: kst@alsys.com (Keith Thompson) Subject: Re: Ada explanation? Message-ID: Originator: kst@pulsar Sender: news@thomsoft.com (USENET News Admin @flash) Organization: Thomson Software Products, San Diego, CA, USA References: <9501181627.AA19623@eurocontrol.de> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 10:25:37 GMT Date: 1995-01-20T10:25:37+00:00 List-Id: In <9501181627.AA19623@eurocontrol.de> Bob Wells #402 writes: > I was just browsing around the WWW when I came upon "The Free > On-Line Dictionary of Computing." I looked up Ada and found the > following. Perhaps we can give a bit better explanation to the > maintainer of the dictionary. FYI, much of this description (from "A Pascal-descended language..." up to "... vast, elephantine bulk." is from the on-line Jargon File, also published in book form as _The New Hacker's Dictionary_, compiled by Eric S. Raymond. It's actually a pretty cool book, even if it's a bit harsh on our favorite programming language. (It also describes C as "a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language".) -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@thomsoft.com (kst@alsys.com still works) TeleSoft^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Alsys^H^H^H^H^H Thomson Software Products 10251 Vista Sorrento Parkway, Suite 300, San Diego, CA, USA, 92121-2718 When you're a nail, every problem looks like a hammer.