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,de40179562eb508d X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!q12g2000prb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adam Beneschan Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A scapegoat once again :( Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 08:15:33 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <9b0df7c4-e934-44ad-b388-19174df51343@r20g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <9f503be5-2fd3-4650-b4c6-7ca707882e70@f11g2000vbx.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1306163733 11398 127.0.0.1 (23 May 2011 15:15:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:15:33 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q12g2000prb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=duW0ogkAAABjRdnxgLGXDfna0Gc6XqmQ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618; .NET4.0C),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19381 Date: 2011-05-23T08:15:33-07:00 List-Id: On May 23, 5:25=A0am, Ludovic Brenta wrote: >=A0I think there are at least two idiots at work here: > one inside the project who has heard of Ada and wants to get rid of > it, and one "expert" who doesn't know what software is and repeats > whatever the first one said. =A0Both should be held accountable for > their incompetence. Then there's the journalist who repeated the words of the "expert" without doing any checking---apparently not noticing that the expert's background is in political science. So I make it at least three. -- Adam