Re: Ada student homework ?

[Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>]

Good, I'm glad we can behave like professionals, and it restores a bit of 
my faith in human nature that you apologized. 

-- Brian

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Nicolas Brunot wrote:

> That's right, sorry to have said that.
> 
> I had often the opportunity to 'discuss' with R.Dewar and there is obviously a
> very different point of view from people using Ada without having any
> responsability in time and costs for develoments, and those who have.
> If you have huge freedom in time available and costs, and nothing to report to
> anybody about that, and no concerns about making a lot of people going away
> from Ada, he is surely a good theory guy.
> But if you have to deal with time, costs and efficiency, its way of thinking
> leads to disaster.
> I mentionned his name because the 'bit manipulation thread' was illustrating
> that quite well, and because I think that talking about advertising, it's
> important to let people know that a lot of Ada users are strongly against its
> unquestionable approach of programming which is absolutely unrealistic
> economically speaking.
> 
> That should have been explained without mentioning names.
> 
> Brian Rogoff wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Nicolas Brunot wrote:
> > > I personally wouldn't like to ride on an airplane programmed by R.Dewar
> > > who would certainly explained he expected the plane to crash because
> > > the compiler behaves as he expects ...
> >
> > It's this kind of post that makes me think this newsgroup is a waste of
> > time. Do you so rapidly descend into personal attacks with your colleagues
> > at work too? Can I infer from this post that I don't want to use any piece
> > of software written by Nicolas Brunot because he's so wrapped up in some
> > personal vendetta against Robert Dewar that he obviously can't think
> > straight, and goes off posting insults on a technical newsgroup? Are you
> > one of those people who thinks nothing of littering or newsgroup spam?
> >
> > Moderation would make this a better group I think, but as I recall there
> > has been little interest in doing it.
> >
> > -- Brian
> 
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