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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,85034d1ac78a66eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-21 16:35:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!btnet-peer1!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: "tony gair" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada Operating System Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 00:34:23 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Message-ID: References: <5Tzc8.111999$H37.15018616@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> <3C73F480.5010806@mail.com> <$D13NMeU$AWl@eisner.encompasserve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: host217-34-84-249.in-addr.btopenworld.com X-Trace: paris.btinternet.com 1014338063 28814 217.34.84.249 (22 Feb 2002 00:34:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 00:34:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20240 Date: 2002-02-22T00:34:23+00:00 List-Id: "Larry Kilgallen" wrote in message news:$D13NMeU$AWl@eisner.encompasserve.org... > In article , "tony gair" writes: > > > PS you could also say there would be a lot more innocent civilians around > > without > > Ada or C++ supported weapon systems. > > I am not convinced that ill-controlled explosives are better than > well-controlled explosives. Plenty of explosive were used in the > US Civil War (1861-1865) -- as much as possible, despite the lack > of fine-grained control mechanisms. They may be well controlled by the software, but they are certainly ill controlled by vicous vile, cowards. Come the world wide revolution they will each be tied in a chair and forced to watch a looped tape of an episode of Dallas, for the rest of their lives...........