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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,54889de51045a215 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-23 11:50:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.he.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:50:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:50:52 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Early Ada Mistakes References: <1066224357.499523@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1066231159.711433@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1066311805.222491@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F8F3077.60402@comcast.net> <3F900F35.50203@comcast.net> <3F952A59.5090001@noplace.com> <3F96788C.5020309@noplace.com> <3F96E2C6.6010708@comcast.net> <3F975D3C.7050804@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: <3F975D3C.7050804@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.90 X-Trace: sv3-4ka33W/nQTUyFseqVj8BTz8bJI9+XalLZzf8WdcAq3piEbD45RnJMGgfH1jAStULfLGm8CZhHXOCpR1!k/FKUOgYq4VKr4gIEbaSta1VR08m4RmZbWdkE4/jxymcAafuGWIZ/H8wORJ/6zw11z5RqgaqzOAN X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1533 Date: 2003-10-23T13:50:52-05:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > I realize it all got fixed eventually, but it *did* leave a bad taste in > the mouths of a lot of users. Ada was supposed to be this wonderful > language that was going to be portable across all machines and all > compilers - but the wonderful parts were not there and the portability To me it was "a language so big the compiler won't fit on today's home machines" and I did nothing with it until a few years later my employer offered an intro course in it. We were not using it on any project at the time (AFAIK) although we were bidding on AN/BSY-2. I took the course and liked what I saw. Now when someone complains it's too big, I think "Big, but organized; as opposed to just big, like ____" :-) -- Wes Groleau ----------- Daily Hoax: http://www.snopes2.com/cgi-bin/random/random.asp