From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant)
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 22:55:53 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2013-09-22T22:55:53-07:00 [thread overview]
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On Sunday, September 22, 2013 10:43:36 PM UTC-6, Peter Brooks wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 September 2013 23:24:24 UTC+2, Shark8 wrote:
> >
> > Tell me about it; that's one of the biggest turn-offs I encountered in school. There's a portion of a rant in the Unix-Hater's Handbook which claims that Unix had stunted development/advancement in OSes and with that attitude I encountered I don't doubt it (or that the same is [mostly] true of C/C++).
>
> If a proper APSE had been developed, I'm sure it would have displaced Unix.
If by ASPE you mean an Ada Programming Support Environment, then there was the R-1000. I found a pretty interesting website/blog about a guy's memories of using it.
> The power of Unix is mainly down to the brilliant invention of fork and exec - they're what led to sockets and the elegance of TCP/IP compared to other protocols of the time.
Fork and Exec led to sockets and TCP/IP? I'm sorry, but I seriously don't see the connection there.
> This is particularly evident if you look at the horlicks that MSDOS makes of networking, even DOS version Windows 7.
That's flat-out false: Windows XP, 2000, and 7 are all descended from the NT Kernel, which means they *aren't* impacted by the design of DOS/Win3/Win95/Win98. (But that they are as compatible as they are to programs from that branch of development shows how much effort and care went into building the compatibility layer.)
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-20 22:18 Anti-Ada FUD (rant) krfkeith
2013-09-20 22:47 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-09-20 23:32 ` John B. Matthews
2013-09-21 12:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-22 0:47 ` gautier_niouzes
2013-09-22 21:24 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 4:43 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 5:14 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-09-23 6:05 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 23:19 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-09-24 7:10 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 7:00 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 7:55 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 8:31 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 8:37 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 8:52 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 8:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-23 11:31 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-29 1:04 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-24 1:40 ` Paul Rubin
2013-09-24 7:05 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-24 7:34 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-24 7:49 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-24 10:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-24 10:38 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-24 15:39 ` Paul Rubin
2013-09-28 23:28 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-23 5:55 ` Shark8 [this message]
2013-09-23 6:12 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 7:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-23 8:36 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 9:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-23 9:39 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 12:16 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 12:54 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 14:32 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 22:06 ` Peter C. Chapin
2013-09-29 1:00 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-23 7:26 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-24 6:03 ` Shark8
2013-09-24 7:51 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-26 20:58 ` erlo
2013-09-24 6:38 ` krfkeith
2013-09-24 23:18 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-09-28 6:21 ` Shark8
2013-09-28 14:40 ` Per Sandberg
2013-09-28 21:54 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
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