From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Ada 200X?
Date: 1998/07/27
Date: 1998-07-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980727085343.16355A-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6pi2u6$gr8$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, jlvojir1 wrote:
> > > Excuse me sire,
> >
> > Yikes, that is way too formal! There are no royals on c.l.a. Ada is a
> > language for the people.
>
> Actually, I thought I heard somewhere that Robert Dewar had been knighted. It
> just goes to show what a down-to-earth guy he is that he doesn't isist we
> refer to him as "Sir Robert". But "sire" would, of course, be appropriate for
> addressing a person of his station. :-)
Considering that he is one of GNATs sires, thats quite true! However,
since he is at a U.S. university, the royal title would be quite
meaningless.
> I'm not sure I'd want to be his squire though. It would probably be a rather
> boring job, consisting mostly of refilling his coffee cup and recharging the
> batteries on his laptop computer.
Actually, I am envious of his squires/students. When I was in college,
I didn't have professors in my CS classes whose software engineering
knowledge was very great, and I have been told by lots of other
programmers that this is common. I hope his students appreciate their
good fortune!
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-07-25 0:00 Ada 200X? jlvojir1
1998-07-26 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-07-27 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-27 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1998-07-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-07-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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