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,e3feb606f668a7c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ehud Lamm Subject: Re: Why should hackers love Ada. (Re: Ada 95 based RTOS) Date: 2000/02/24 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 589425460 References: <88ilp7$bcm$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38ADCA44.3B91BF6F@averstar.com> <88qli0$gvr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38B2A2A1.FDCDDFE7@honeywell.com> <88ugrd$7j7$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <890ght$bih1@ftp.kvaerner.com> <38B3EA94.E3AB4929@maths.unine.ch> <38B41432.88D7389F@quadruscorp.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.huji.ac.il X-Trace: news.huji.ac.il 951379380 181 132.64.178.45 (24 Feb 2000 08:03:00 GMT) Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Feb 2000 08:03:00 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-02-24T08:03:00+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Marin D. Condic wrote: |But I suppose those who would hang the moniker "hacker" upon themselves |really want assembly language - only without the inconvenience of having |to learn a new one every time new hardware comes out. Hence the |popularity of things like C with hackers. | It is worth noticing that hackers also like VHLL, since they are interesting to play with. Scheme is well liked (though APL isn't. So it is tempting to see the "hacker attitude" as fashion?!) Hacking evolved through time. Today, I think coding in assembly is more the realm of what is known as 'Real Programmers" and not hackers. (Hope you are all familiar with the funny "Real programmers don't Eat Quiche" and its relatives) Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ehudlamm <== My home on the web Check it out and subscribe to the E-List- for interesting essays and more!