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=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ca617b0b2c1f2e33 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: andrew Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Martians' Revenge? Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:46:36 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.78.128.110 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1215794797 18374 127.0.0.1 (11 Jul 2008 16:46:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:46:37 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=139.78.128.110; posting-account=nEabzAoAAACAOfb_WmFJ5X5xOdAgoaUs User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; InfoPath.2),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6843 Date: 2008-07-11T09:46:36-07:00 List-Id: On Jul 10, 9:17=A0pm, Gene wrote: > If there is an advanced civilization somewhere on Mars, we have sent > them a poor message about our collective technological judgement. =A0It > turns out all the flight pack software on Phoenix is in C. > > http://news.oreilly.com/2008/07/the-software-behind-the-mars-p.html So...is Ada gaining any ground or should I focus on refreshing my C programming skills? I'm dissapointed.