From: Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Ada 95 based RTOS
Date: 2000/02/23
Date: 2000-02-23T13:14:59+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.96-heb-2.07.1000223151403.108326A-100000@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38B3EA94.E3AB4929@maths.unine.ch
Hi
I have a rough outline for a memo titled "Why should hackers love Ada."
Beacuse of lack of time, it is yet to be finished. If someone wants to
cooperate - let me konw
Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Gautier wrote:
|> If your read (and believe) what the Jargon file
|> (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/) writes about Ada then it is not surprising
|> that languages like Ada are not popular with the hackers. Ada has had a
|> terrible reputation.
|
|An interesting thingis that these impressions seem to be just based on gossips
|(Ada 83, with the first compiler attempts) or simply copied from the criticism
|about Pascal - which is somehow justified for Pascal.
|A fundamental reason why fundamental things do not change in software as fast as
|for other technical domains is that an ASCII text even doesn't become yellow with
|the time. The "Ada" topic in the Jargon file must be about 20 years old, but a
|newcomer could take it as fresh information... Anyway the whole text smells
|its 1970-early 1980, with plenty of PDP-11 and so on... Maybe for the "Elderly
|Hackers Club" ?...
|
|--
|Gautier
|
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-02-18 0:00 Ada 95 based RTOS xaplos
2000-02-18 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-02-21 0:00 ` xaplos
2000-02-22 0:00 ` Matthew Majka
2000-02-22 0:00 ` xaplos
2000-02-22 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-22 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-02-22 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-22 0:00 ` xaplos
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Roger Racine
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Simon Wright
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-25 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-26 0:00 ` xaplos
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-25 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm [this message]
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Why should hackers love Ada. (Re: Ada 95 based RTOS) Marin D. Condic
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Gary
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-25 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-02-25 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-26 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-02-25 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-25 0:00 ` Gary
2000-02-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-26 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Mike Dimmick
2000-03-10 0:00 ` Wil
2000-03-10 0:00 ` Ada OS again " David Starner
2000-03-11 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-02-24 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-02-24 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
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