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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52fd60a337c05842 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-17 18:15:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!cox.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!psiuk-p2!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada paper critic Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 09:32:56 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1024320777 28183 136.170.200.133 (17 Jun 2002 13:32:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Jun 2002 13:32:57 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26192 Date: 2002-06-17T13:32:57+00:00 List-Id: Ummmmm.... Just a guess, but wasn't "1980" over twenty years ago? :-) Considering that the latest Ada standard is dated 1995 - whatever Hoare (correctly or incorrectly) criticized Ada for back then doesn't seem to be terribly important to the language as it stands today. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com "Lyle McKennot" wrote in message news:r2flgu8j6nh9sac02e6d7fqjarb4ues8gt@4ax.com... > > How about the 1980 ACM Turing Award lecture "The Emperor's Old > Clothes" ? > > After all, it was that scathing attack by Hoare that made a lot of > people in the academic community abandon Ada. > > It is still available at : > > http://lambda.cs.yale.edu/cs422/doc/hoare.pdf