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-Thread: 103376,ce439995694047ee X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada for dummies needed. References: <1109658579.355901.140180@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1109658579.355901.140180@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:22:49 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.240.21.249 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1109697769 4.240.21.249 (Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:22:49 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:22:49 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8571 Date: 2005-03-01T17:22:49+00:00 List-Id: Adrian Hoe wrote: > That sounds very harsh and biased to a beginner (or dummy). Couldn't > you be humble and nice? Cheers :-) I think it's a good thing that Ada is not for dummies. That may limit its popularity, but it means that a person's attitude towards Ada may be used as a discriminator. Now if we can just arrange things so dummies are not allowed to make language choices or create designs ... -- Jeff Carter "Ada has made you lazy and careless. You can write programs in C that are just as safe by the simple application of super-human diligence." E. Robert Tisdale 72