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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5ac12f5a60b1bfe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,5ac12f5a60b1bfe X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,87f6968ed41c9df1 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Multiple reasons for failure of Ariane 5 (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not an exception?) Date: 1996/08/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 175852021 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pl1 Date: 1996-08-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4vgkt1$s2v@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (++ robin) writes: His standard idiotic rubbish and > ---Not really, when people have to ask how to do > a square root [in Ada]. 1. Go to readily available online hypertext ARM. 2. Click on index 3. Click on S, get ... Sqrt A.5.1(4), B.1(51), G.1.2(3) ... 4. Click on first entry and get full signature and semantics of operation. Total time to information: 10 seconds. Duh! Do you have any idea how stupid and petty this makes you look????? /Jon BTW, the B entry shows you an example of pulling in the Fortran Sqrt function and the G entry gives signature and semantics of the Complex version... -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com