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: 103376,54889de51045a215 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-21 22:23:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: += in ada Date: 21 Oct 2003 22:23:19 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <3F8F3077.60402@comcast.net> <3F900F35.50203@comcast.net> <3F92B607.809@comcast.net> <3F937806.9080205@comcast.net> <3F93D7A5.8020801@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.194.87.148 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1066800199 17631 127.0.0.1 (22 Oct 2003 05:23:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 05:23:19 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1368 Date: 2003-10-21T22:23:19-07:00 List-Id: Marius Amado Alves wrote in message news:... > On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 06:37, Russ wrote: > > ... The tall, unqualified guys > > regularly beat out the short, qualified guys! Yet, when the > > interviewers were asked about it, they denied that the applicant's > > height had anything to do with it! > > They were simply lying. I doubt that. They did not realize it was a set-up until after they made their decisions. They thought they were actually hiring people to work for them! Do you think they would *deliberately* hire a substantially less qualified applicant because he is taller? > > The fact that the 10 most popular programming languages ever designed > > *all* use "=" for assignment > > What is the top 10 again? (I suppose it doesn't include COBOL, Pascal, > Smalltalk.) I am using "top ten" is a historical sense, thus Fortran would be included, for example. Yes, it would include COBOL, and yes COBOL uses "=" for assignment (in its "compute" statement). Pascal was once widely used for teaching programming, but I don't think it was ever a major language in industry (regardless of what Borland thinks). I don't think it would be in the top ten, but I could be wrong. Smalltalk may be a fine language, but I seriously doubt it is in the top ten. Then again, it uses ":=" for assignment, so how could it be?