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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8a602a7f65bebaea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-21 07:46:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.infoave.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Abstract methods in ADA95 References: <20021017-143635-828420@foorum.com> <3DAF0ECE.7080204@acm.org> <3DB07766.6010407@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:46:13 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.133.155 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1035211574 151.168.133.155 (Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:46:14 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:46:14 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29983 Date: 2002-10-21T09:46:13-05:00 List-Id: >> Bah. Why be so pedantic about teriminology? > > A good question. Would you please explain how zaberqualls in Ada > figerlib pooterdags? A bad answer. There is a big difference between being liberal in what you accept and being conservative in what you put out. Your "question" (if I didn't know the context) could be interpreted as an attempt to NOT be understood for the sake of strife. When someone asks a question about methods, and we understand them and give them a helpful answer, we have in our small way promoted world peace. If we instead scold them for not speaking our language, .... Of course, it wouldn't hurt to append something like, " by the way, Ada folks tend to use the terms '....' "