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-Thread: 103376,782af4edeb84c4b7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!130.59.10.21.MISMATCH!kanaga.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!cernne03.cern.ch!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: basic basic ada question Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:13:00 +0200 Organization: CERN News Message-ID: References: <1161268231.345231.242170@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1qy643kz9ktss$.12j6z88wjcte2$.dlg@40tude.net> <1161272720.704725.208180@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> <6WQZg.1028379$084.76409@attbi_s22> NNTP-Posting-Host: abpc10883.cern.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: cernne03.cern.ch 1161328380 15244 137.138.37.241 (20 Oct 2006 07:13:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@@cern.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:13:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060922) In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7060 Date: 2006-10-20T09:13:00+02:00 List-Id: Jeffrey R. Carter wrote: >> Why should one think in C or Ada? There are lots of concepts that >> transcend the languages. After all, both languages have subroutines, >> parameter passing, stack/heap allocation, etc, etc. > > The Ada mindset is essentially the same as the SW engineering mindset. Cool sentence, but I know another: "Computers think in C". Both are good (and actually used) in flamewars. -- Maciej Sobczak : http://www.msobczak.com/ Programming : http://www.msobczak.com/prog/