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,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f039470e8f537101 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-25 15:05:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.airnews.net!cabal12.airnews.net!usenet From: "John R. Strohm" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ariane5 FAQ Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:53:19 -0500 Organization: Airnews.net! at Internet America Message-ID: References: <1058968422.225561@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F200AD0.94F79098@adaworks.com> <7u9Ua.13412$634.10307@nwrdny03.gnilink.net> X-A-Notice: References line has been trimmed due to 512 byte limitation Abuse-Reports-To: abuse at airmail.net to report improper postings NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library1-aux.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Time: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:03:23 -0500 (CDT) NNTP-Posting-Host: !\>H>1k-XLls616 (Encoded at Airnews!) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40818 Date: 2003-07-25T16:53:19-05:00 List-Id: "Hyman Rosen" wrote in message news:7u9Ua.13412$634.10307@nwrdny03.gnilink.net... > Alexander Kopilovitch wrote: > > As for political correctness... well, I have nothing against it, > > but only if it does not obscure essential things. > > The entire point of your FAQ is political correctness. > In this order, you are urgently campaigning that Ada, > Ada programmers, and technical people have absolutely > no blame in the Ariane 5 crash. In order to do this > you make unsubstantiated claims which are designed to > appeal to the egos and biases of Ada programmers and > other technical people. This has been building up for a LOOOONG time. Hyman, between this, and various other things you have said, I just drew the conclusion that you cannot possibly have anything whatsoever to say that will ever possibly be the slightest bit interesting to me. *Plonk.*