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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-10 14:38:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.moat.net!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:38:28 -0500 Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:38:29 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau+news@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Macintosh/20040208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.107 X-Trace: sv3-55nXc1dS29szS4FKXoTvCLefZXTi2Z2MWGR0y/yFY5u2yDD0OnUNYXgTZlGeRRMt53RhmNeCjxC1lBO!P0nig05N/mwzFOmzF74xXNHeXtLkfShaLL+2W+F0rP1zC45U7GUWhQC+gx0lmnJO/JGTEFAh0Zk+!hg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6960 Date: 2004-04-10T16:38:29-05:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > So the 5 Ada guys have to fix 1,000 bugs at 1/day/guy, for a total > of 1000/5=200 days. > The 100 C guys fix at .5 bugs/day, so they do 50/day total, and > they have 10,000 to fix, for 10000/50= 200 days. > Looks like that race ends in a tie. Why is everyone so determine to miss the point? The numbers are wrong, irrelevant, and bogus. The point is that we Ada fans are so far out-numbered that (as Marin has been insisting for ages) we have to do something really good, not try to compete on the turf that they have _already_ captured. -- Wes Groleau ------ "The reason most women would rather have beauty than brains is they know that most men can see better than they can think." -- James Dobson