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: 103376,19e983c5955f75f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-06 10:24:24 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.sttls1.wa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Mark Lundquist" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <9af9ao$6ee$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <9aiq8h$ik8$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: Learning Ada (newbie) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 17:24:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.20.66.55 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.sttls1.wa.home.com 986577863 24.20.66.55 (Fri, 06 Apr 2001 10:24:23 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 10:24:23 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6580 Date: 2001-04-06T17:24:23+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote in message news:Hakz6.3384$jz.287874@www.newsranger.com... > In article <9aiq8h$ik8$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says... > > > > I had one very close friend whose marrige broke up as a direct result of the > exteneded separation imposed by integration of buggy C code. (One example of a > bug they found: An array out-of-bounds indexing error which would have at worst > immediately raised an exception in Ada, instead caused an odd intermittent > symptom 2 networked computers away. It took them 3 *weeks* to track it down.) I > had another close friend working on the same project with *5* young kids at > home, whose marriage very nearly broke up, again directly related to the > extended separation. Wow. I think everybody recognizes that professional and personal life are intertwined. And I don't think anyone would deny the strong connection between the technical world and the professional world... But the consequence, that the technical world thereby affects the personal life, is something that's maybe not often considered (I know I've never really thought about it quite in those terms before...) Maybe there's some coalition of divorce lawyers behind the C-class language hegemony and the anti-Ada climate. :-) Or "sucky software" in general; maybe Ron Oliver should examine this in the next round of his inquiry...:-) -- mark