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: 103376,865e31ac5a1b553a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: pascmartin@mail.earthlink.net (Pascal F. Martin) Subject: Re: GNAT -vs- ObjectAda (was Re: where is the faq) Date: 1999/08/03 Message-ID: <_Fxp3.2745$U4.115180@clnws01.we.mediaone.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 508283485 References: <7mneah$g5j$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3790b774.0@news.pacifier.com> <7mqtl0$jvr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7ni275$kfs$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3IRn3.743$U4.54316@clnws01.we.mediaone.net> <7nsg90$iqi$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: clnws01.we.mediaone.net 933668602 24.130.95.174 (Tue, 03 Aug 1999 01:23:22 PDT) Organization: MediaOne-Road Runner, Western Region Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 01:23:22 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7nsg90$iqi$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Ted Dennison writes: > In article <3IRn3.743$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.