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From: Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Ada 95 based RTOS
Date: 2000/02/23
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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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