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,dbd35bb508093bd9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-05 15:06:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!eusc.inter.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT Hatred (was Re: New Ada compiler for .NET) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:06:33 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <3DEA5CC0.6B435E66@adaworks.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1039129593 7769 134.91.1.34 (5 Dec 2002 23:06:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:06:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31476 Date: 2002-12-05T23:06:33+00:00 List-Id: Chad R. Meiners wrote: : : Ignorance. Honestly, hatred of people of whom you do not know can only be : the result of ignorance. True, yes, quite true, every report I've heard so far about people living on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea confirms mutual ignorance on a large scale. With regard to the conflict in question, this place seems highly representative to me. Even in that so much is, in terms of gossip, said about the area, as well as about the good western democracy against the evil eastern com_muslimists. I don't know any better, but learning seems better to me than almost anything currently discussed. See http://www.rice.edu/projects/reno/Newsrel/2003/20020918_predictwar.shtml for a computing related view. : It is irrational to hate a country. Well, it's not just rational to love someone (or at least I would hope so), so rationality might be a more involved matter. But emotions do matter, so if there were more honest information from those who will decide about how military action is going to influence our daily lives in the near future, and why, and why really, I'd feel a lot better. It opens up room for arguments. If you _knew_ Ada, and C, and ML, and Perl, and ..., whouldn't that be better than just preferring one of those languages for reasons that sometimes appear emotional, or religious, or fundamentalist? If language wars are so frequent, what are the ways to evade, use, prevent language wars? Have them do no real harm. Anyone want to praise rational Ada programs, driving homeland protection devices that won't erratically fly after my friends' mobile phones? SCNR. -- georg