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: 103376,189a28164788ed2e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-05 00:04:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Brown Subject: Re: Computer Language Shootout Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1aKyQDuwXbPB@eisner.encompasserve.org> User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.12 (i686)) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 08:04:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.133.74.64 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1004947494 64.133.74.64 (Mon, 05 Nov 2001 00:04:54 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 00:04:54 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 00:00:56 PST (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15787 Date: 2001-11-05T08:04:54+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > When I had a discussion with him some months ago his attitude on > new languages seemed to be a matter of waiting until he personally > had time to deal with them. He also seems to suggest that Ada didn't seem very interesting to him. Perhaps he needs some "convincing". Dave Brown