From: pontius@btv.mbi.com.invalid ()
Subject: Ada made the front page of Slashdot, today
Date: 22 Jul 2002 11:22:44 GMT
Date: 2002-07-22T11:22:44+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ahgpu4$h9s$1@news.btv.ibm.com> (raw)
and it's not good. Amusing perhaps, though.
Slashdot quote from The Atlanta Journal and Constitution article:
'When avionics problems crop up now, pilots must restart the entire
system as if rebooting a personal computer.' and 'written in about
one and a half million lines of Ada code'
So far it's been mostly Win-bashing, one Ada-positive comment. Of
course it's mostly uninformed, though a few posts do shine through.
The moderation can be funny though. One post titled, "There Is
Something Rotten in Software Engineering" talks about how Lady Ada
Lovelace and Charles Babbage began using these inherently unstable
things called 'algorithms.' Unfortunately instead of getting "Funny"
moderation it's got "Interesting".
Oh, well.
Dale Pontius
(NOT speaking for IBM)
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2002-07-22 11:22 pontius [this message]
2002-07-25 5:40 ` Ada made the front page of Slashdot, today Bobby D. Bryant
2002-07-25 13:49 ` Ted Dennison
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