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: 103376,18660da2464b3277 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-01 06:53:18 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!wizard.pn.com!satisfied.elf.com!news.mathworks.com!udel!gatech!paladin.american.edu!auvm!PSAVAX.PWFL.COM!CONDIC Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 09:53:18 EST Sender: Ada programming language From: CONDIC@PSAVAX.PWFL.COM Subject: Re: How come so much traffic on comp.lang.ada?? Date: 1995-02-01T09:53:18-05:00 List-Id: From: Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93 Subject: Re: How come so much traffic on comp.lang.ada?? Original_To: PROFS%"SMTP@PWAGPDB" Original_cc: CONDIC David Emery writes: > >6. Ada programmers are much less egotistical, in the sense that they >view programming as a group activity (rather than an individual >activity). > I don't know - I'm about as egotistical as they come. (Unless, of course, you subscribe to the theory that I really am the greatest invention since shirt pockets ;-) I've never found that to be an impediment to being an Ada programmer. Maybe C, with it's terse syntax, appeals to those with little desire to express themselves at length - or just don't like to type. Whereas Ada, with it's self-documenting syntax and encouraged use of long, descriptive names, appeals to those who are naturally more verbose - or at least have learned to use a keyboard well enough that posting a message isn't an exercise in hunt-and-peck typing. I suppose that's about as good a theory as any other - eh? ;-) Pax, Marin Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer ATT: 407.796.8997 M/S 731-93 Technet: 796.8997 Pratt & Whitney, GESP Internet: CONDICMA@PWFL.COM P.O. Box 109600 Internet: MDCONDIC@AOL.COM West Palm Beach, FL 33410-9600 =============================================================================== "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." -- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957. ===============================================================================