From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: Refactoring and Ada
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 02:58:51 GMT
Date: 2002-02-10T02:58:51+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Lll98.2441$Am5.1499375735@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C65BFF4.F15A07D0@earthlink.net
>And the thing is, they were rarely in situations where the underlying
>representation was of any interest, ... The only thing I could figure
>was that it was paranoia from some of the early Ada adopters.
A lesson for language designers?
When cake mixes in boxes first came out they sold poorly. The
directions said "add water and beat" and housewives felt useless.
Then someone came out with a version where the housewife had to add an
egg. That felt more like making a cake and resulted in much greater
sales. Perhaps early Ada adopters also needed such a proprietary
sense of accomplishment?
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2002-02-01 15:13 Refactoring and Ada Paul Anderson
2002-02-02 17:48 ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-02 20:36 ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-03 0:21 ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-03 13:53 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-03 19:23 ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-04 2:17 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-04 20:48 ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-04 22:31 ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-04 22:43 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-06 2:51 ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-03 18:50 ` Simon Wright
2002-02-04 4:32 ` Richard Riehle
2002-02-04 12:28 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2002-02-04 17:03 ` Richard Riehle
2002-02-06 17:19 ` Robert A Duff
2002-02-04 17:59 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-04 18:50 ` Pascal Obry
2002-02-05 1:07 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-05 1:44 ` Richard Riehle
2002-02-06 17:42 ` Robert A Duff
2002-02-06 17:32 ` Robert A Duff
2002-02-07 8:45 ` Dr. Michael Paus
2002-02-07 13:54 ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-03 13:48 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-03 19:38 ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-04 2:20 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-08 21:21 ` Paul Anderson
2002-02-03 9:45 ` Volkert
2002-02-04 0:06 ` Refactoring and Ada (tool I'd like to have...) David Emery
2002-02-08 9:24 ` Refactoring and Ada Martin Dowie
2002-02-08 15:15 ` Ted Dennison
2002-02-08 15:52 ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-08 16:07 ` OT : " martin.m.dowie
2002-02-08 17:11 ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-09 19:46 ` martin.m.dowie
2002-02-09 23:04 ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-10 13:57 ` Martin Dowie
2002-02-08 16:06 ` martin.m.dowie
2002-02-08 17:07 ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-09 19:48 ` martin.m.dowie
2002-02-09 23:05 ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-10 1:30 ` Marc A. Criley
2002-02-10 2:58 ` tmoran [this message]
2002-02-11 15:27 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-12 19:16 ` Simon Wright
2002-02-15 19:43 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-15 20:33 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-15 21:40 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-19 16:54 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-19 19:39 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-20 4:23 ` Richard Riehle
2002-02-20 5:20 ` Mark Biggar
2002-02-20 9:58 ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-20 17:14 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-20 17:18 ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-20 18:08 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-20 22:12 ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-23 22:48 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-21 0:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-21 1:31 ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-22 14:37 ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-22 21:23 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-23 23:04 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-25 20:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-23 23:21 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-23 22:58 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-23 22:55 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-26 1:05 ` Nick Roberts
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2002-02-05 6:15 Christoph Grein
2002-02-07 11:26 Christoph Grein
2002-02-07 18:31 ` Dr. Michael Paus
2002-02-08 12:45 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-08 17:20 ` Dr. Michael Paus
2002-02-20 6:19 Christoph Grein
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