From: pascmartin@mail.earthlink.net (Pascal F. Martin)
Subject: Re: GNAT -vs- ObjectAda (was Re: where is the faq)
Date: 1999/08/03
Date: 1999-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <_Fxp3.2745$U4.115180@clnws01.we.mediaone.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7nsg90$iqi$1@nnrp1.deja.com
In article <7nsg90$iqi$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> In article <3IRn3.743$U4.54316@clnws01.we.mediaone.net>,
> pascmartin@mail.earthlink.net (Pascal F. Martin) wrote:
>
>> gdb. Let remember that most people now use PCs, but computer
>> programmers are a minority: most PC users have no computer degree.
>
> Heck, most *programmmers* have no computer degree.
Let me rephrase that:
most PC users have no computer exposure whatsoever. They usually
learned how to use Microsoft Word and hardly more. Sometime not
even that.
And that's OK: computers would not have enjoyed their current success
if high school education was required for their use.
My company, which is providing centralized train control system (no
Ada: all C, C++ and Tcl), sometime must start user training with a
dumbed down course on "what is a mouse, how to move it and what is this
strange arrow on the TV set". These persons then will control complete
mass transit systems from their multihead PCs.
No kidding.
--
Pascal F. Martin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-08-03 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-14 0:00 where is the faq Rick Sutcliffe
1999-07-14 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-07-15 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-16 0:00 ` David Kristola
1999-07-16 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-16 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-07-16 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-07-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-17 0:00 ` GNAT -vs- ObjectAda (was Re: where is the faq) Steve Doiel
1999-07-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-26 0:00 ` Pascal F. Martin
1999-07-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-29 0:00 ` Pascal F. Martin
1999-07-30 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-03 0:00 ` Pascal F. Martin [this message]
1999-08-03 0:00 ` jerry
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-07-19 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-07-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-17 0:00 ` where is the faq Robert Dewar
1999-07-25 0:00 ` tmoran
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