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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,af5bf4e3cf0c28b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-01 07:49:41 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator!feed2.newsfeeds.com!newsfeeds.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9f2tuk$hbg$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f5n1i$iqq$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B17A028.A4A91C3F@brighton.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Cannot use NULL as identifier? Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 10:48:45 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 14:48:45 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7976 Date: 2001-06-01T14:48:45+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B17A028.A4A91C3F@brighton.ac.uk>, John English says... > >Mike's book is now OOP, as is mine. We are now having to consider >teaching another language at Brighton because of the lack of suitable >textbooks for beginners. The publishers aren't interested because the >market's too small. And various sections of industry are complaining >that they can't find enough trained Ada developers, so they're being >forced to move to Java or C++. Well, all we have to do now is wait for 75 years after you die, and we can just release it on the web for anyone to read or print out. :-) Yet another illustration of why the copyright period is *far* too long. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com