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: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-22 07:14:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:22:49 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8mgdmv08eaabv53vv5sofud2k40lbo0fdh@4ax.com> <6roimvg39s8h5ba64u9pn0trsa4d3u4kai@4ax.com> <4XCbb.13251$Uv2.12148@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.111) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1064240071 3730797 212.79.194.111 (16 [77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42747 Date: 2003-09-22T16:22:49+02:00 List-Id: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:38:08 GMT, "Frank J. Lhota" wrote: >"Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote in message >news:j5itmvchgijlria6a9q1m7hsloopveo20d@4ax.com... >> Oh, this is very possible. For example, people trained to eat >> McDonald's food will not accept any decent dish. > >Where do people get TRAINED to eat McDonald's food? In McDonald's restaurant, I guess. Here in Germany, there is a tradition to go in all family each weekend to a McDonald. Not to a theatre or museum, note. >And if there are so many >McDonald's "trainees" out there, what accounts for the drop in McDonald's >business over the last few years? Because of Pizza restaurants? (:-)) Is that much better? >> People permanently >> watching MTV are unable to recognize virtually any music. Wirth wrote >> that students once exposed to Basic are beyond any hope... > >Yeah, poor Bill Gates will never amount to anything... Sorry, that was not Wirth, but Edsger W. Dijkstra: "It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." Maybe Bill is also a Nobel Prize nominee for this year, or Dijkstra had missed something. Well, reading the list of Nobel Peace Awards, maybe, maybe... >> In my dilettantish opinion, there is a difference, knowledge is >> difficult to separate from its carrier. The-Mickey-Mouse-movement >> against freedom of speech was so successfull because in case of >> recorded music and movies it was relatively easy to do. > >What success? They'd got that DMCA through. They switched attention of law makers from software safety to software use. From the liability of software developers to the liability of the software users. Maybe it is unpatriotic, all we here are developers, but I find it scandalous. >The recording industry attempts to reign in file sharing has >been inept and ineffective. Freedom always wins, after all. >Universal has finally seen the light and taken >the right course of action on recorded music. Instead of threatening their >customer base with legal action, Universal announced that they are reducing >the price of their CD's to $10 tops. [sobbing] Children of Universal's top managers will hunger! (:-)) --- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de