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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: ada and robots
Date: 1997/06/17
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Date: 1997-06-17T00:00:00+00:00
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Matthew Whiting's anonymous friend once again posts a whole bunch of reasons
why Ada cannot be used to do marvellous things. Of course a lot of these
points are just technically misinformed (the nonsense about conformant
arrays stands out particularly, but also the business about printf seems
a bit pathetic too).

But what is really annoying is that once again, we have vague uninformed
statements, which we could correct, but that is not what we asked for,
we asked for a piece of representative code.

The really convincing argument that these "let-me-alone-and-write-in-C"
[reminds me of Hacker's Senior's lyrics in The Maiden and the Mandate, but
that was in fun :-)] could provide is

   *CODE*

that we could look at, and agree, yes, hmmm! indeed that would be tough to
do in Ada, we see what you mean.

But none of these guys seem willing to actually provide such!