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: f7e6c,fa3451b0479349e3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf7e6c,public X-Google-Thread: 1042ac,fa3451b0479349e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1042ac,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,278dbaa392fd4ed1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-26 02:03:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsengine.sol.net!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!news.linkpendium.com!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.australian Subject: Re: Ada software helps the war Re: Protest against the war on Iraq References: <25919840.0303251441.2c024bc@posting.google.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.3b1 (PPC Mac OS X) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:03:07 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.47.50 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1048672987 144.132.47.50 (Wed, 26 Mar 2003 21:03:07 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 21:03:07 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.net.au) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35718 soc.culture.usa:609499 soc.culture.australian:95875 Date: 2003-03-26T10:03:07+00:00 List-Id: Martin Dowie wrote: > Faust wrote in message > news:... > > william.f.schreckenstein@lmco.com (Bill Schreckenstein) writes: > > > > > This ada board is not a proper place for sounding off against a war. > > > > > > Many ada progammers work for the DOD. > > Many ada products are being used right now to kill Iraquis. > > as do many C, C++, FORTRAN, etc programmers and products but I don't > see you cross posting to those groups. ...and we shouldn't forget that the Allied forces are using English as their language - I think that Mr Faust, if he believes that a -language- shouldn't be used if it is every associated with war, should stop using English. That would be consistent, wouldn't it Mr Faust. I didn't see the original post, because Mr Faust is in my kill file. Probably for very good reason. My guess is that he totally clueless with respect to computer languages. Dale