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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e6a2e4a4c0d7d8a6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,3488d9e5d292649f X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-21 11:25:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.airnews.net!cabal12.airnews.net!usenet From: "John R. Strohm" Newsgroups: comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: status of PL/I as a viable language Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:16:11 -0600 Organization: Airnews.net! at Internet America Message-ID: X-Orig-Message-ID: References: X-A-Notice: References line has been trimmed due to 512 byte limitation Abuse-Reports-To: abuse at airmail.net to report improper postings NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library2.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Time: Fri Feb 21 13:23:52 2003 NNTP-Posting-Host: !ca#A1k-VNZ2+!T (Encoded at Airnews!) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.pl1:4396 comp.lang.ada:34367 Date: 2003-02-21T13:16:11-06:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote in message news:f2rb5v8020kkvq6tsf0uqg91pfbk9errs7@4ax.com... > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:34:50 -0500, Hyman Rosen > wrote: > > >John R. Strohm wrote: > >> So what's your point? > > > >My point is that the attitude I often sense on this newsgroup > >is that using Ada will give you perfect code. (Not in so many > >words, mind you, but definitely in attitude.) > > Should it mean that an unability to create a perfect code (a thing I > never saw) in one language excuses any design fault of another? Actually, it IS possible to create perfect code. See: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/boyer/ftp/ics-reports/cmp34.pdf