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: f5d71,304c86061dc69dba X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,304c86061dc69dba X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,304c86061dc69dba X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-07 11:32:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!news.net.uni-c.dk!not-for-mail From: David Rasmussen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 20:32:29 +0100 Organization: UNI-C Message-ID: References: <20040206174017.7E84F4C4114@lovelace.ada-france.org> <54759e7e.0402071124.322ea376@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: oek.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.net.uni-c.dk 1076181758 13284 62.61.154.25 (7 Feb 2004 19:22:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.net.uni-c.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 19:22:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <54759e7e.0402071124.322ea376@posting.google.com> Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5318 comp.lang.c:20984 comp.lang.c++:18020 comp.lang.java:2751 Date: 2004-02-07T20:32:29+01:00 List-Id: MSG wrote: > > Unless you can show us how to do this in a way that will keep Ada a > "safe" (third category) language you say it is, I will not believe > that it's a "master of of the masters", I'm afraid. > > If you answer "yes" to any of the questions, post *compilable* > snippets: we don't want to learn Ada just to verify your claims, > we simply won't believe you. > > BTW, the esteemed Mr. E. Robert Tisdale (ER for short) isn't > letting on about why Ada isn't used much at NASA any more. > Perhaps *you* have an explanation? > So you have theories about Ada, but you don't really know it? That's credible... Just for the record: I am posting from comp.lang.c++. /David