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From: evans@evans.pgh.pa.us (Arthur Evans Jr)
Subject: Re: Some questions about Ada.
Date: 1996/05/05
Date: 1996-05-05T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <evans-0505961547050001@ppp2.pgh.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: DqxKEz.Cs0@world.std.com


In article <DqxKEz.Cs0@world.std.com>,
bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) wrote:

> In article <dewar.831268468@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> >I see you are not in the customer support business :-)
> 
> Actually, I have been, and I found it extremely frustrating to
> communicate programs by telephone.

Indeed.  Some years ago a vendor I was associated with had a customer
who couldn't compile a body stub and complained by telephone.  The
support staff could not recreate the problem, at all.  After much agony,
they found out that the customer had written

    seperate (FOO)
    package BAR is ...

Art Evans

Arthur Evans Jr, PhD        Phone: 412-963-0839
Ada Consulting              FAX:   412-963-0927
461 Fairview Road
Pittsburgh PA  15238-1933
evans@evans.pgh.pa.us

If you don't yet see it, ...
\f
... check for spelling errors.




  reply	other threads:[~1996-05-05  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-05-02  0:00 Some questions about Ada Carl Laurence Gonsalves
1996-05-02  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-02  0:00 ` Dave Jones
1996-05-03  0:00   ` Carl Laurence Gonsalves
1996-05-03  0:00     ` Dave Jones
1996-05-03  0:00     ` Adam Beneschan
1996-05-04  0:00       ` Carl Laurence Gonsalves
1996-05-04  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-04  0:00         ` Richard Kenner
1996-05-04  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-05  0:00             ` Richard Kenner
1996-05-05  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-04  0:00         ` Kevin D. Heatwole
1996-05-04  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-04  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-05  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-05  0:00               ` Arthur Evans Jr [this message]
1996-05-05  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-06  0:00                   ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-05-06  0:00                     ` David Weller
1996-05-07  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-12  0:00                         ` Geert Bosch
1996-05-05  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-06  0:00                 ` Christopher J. Henrich
1996-05-06  0:00         ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-05-06  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-03  0:00     ` Michael Feldman
1996-05-03  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-06  0:00     ` Laurent Guerby
1996-05-03  0:00   ` Darren C Davenport
1996-05-03  0:00   ` Spencer Allain
1996-05-06  0:00   ` Matthew M. Lih
1996-05-09  0:00     ` Dave Jones
1996-05-03  0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-05-03  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
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