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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4024aa5f74aaba1c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-04 17:16:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny03.gnilink.net.POSTED!0e8a908a!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Letters References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 01:16:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.192.162 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny03.gnilink.net 1073265415 162.84.192.162 (Sun, 04 Jan 2004 20:16:55 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 20:16:55 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4109 Date: 2004-01-05T01:16:55+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > Perhaps they are overworked - note in the current CACM the article > sub-head "Health Web sites are employ a ...". It's written in > a very fancy font. Maybe we should be happy about the content, rather > than unhappy about the presentation, in Ada Letters. #.# All your base are belong to us. At one point, English was supposed to become the next lingua franca. I guess not. I remain a member of ACM more out of nostalgia and inertia than out of genuine interest, although SIGPLAN is still OK. CACM hasn't been worth reading for at least a decade. Oh for the glory days, when things like the diff algortithm first saw publication there.