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: 103376,86e4f25e3cb89995 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Ada 200X? Date: 1998/07/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 375345874 References: <6pdt77$qgo$1@news-1.news.gte.net> <6pi2u6$gr8$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: 901555658 22228 bpr 206.184.139.132 Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-07-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 dennison@telepath.com wrote: > Brian Rogoff 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