From: Bill Richards <billrich@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:31:26 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2013-09-23T11:31:26+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l1p8qe$a1u$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 524002d3$0$6553$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net
On 2013-09-23, Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> wrote:
> On 23.09.13 09:00, Bill Richards wrote:
>> Ada
>> is about order, planning, design and then implementation, doing things
>> correctly with a long term view and thinking about the next guy or guys
>> who'll maintain it.
>
> Your description of what Ada is about sounds very much like a description
> of planned economy in Stalinist states of not long ago. 8-)
Really? I didn't know they worried about who would maintain things ;-)
> (Reading this kind of argument, a reader may associate Ada with some
> extraneous assumptions, all non-technical, politically heated, that likely
> keep Ada out of this readers mind. So, I do hope they notice "rant" at
> least.)
I don't see any non-technical or politically heated assumptions in what you
quoted. I don't suppose you think what I listed aren't fundamental views of
Ada.. if you were talking about rant then that was about UNIX. I'm sure you
can tell the difference.
Bill
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-20 22:18 Anti-Ada FUD (rant) krfkeith
2013-09-20 22:47 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-09-20 23:32 ` John B. Matthews
2013-09-21 12:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-22 0:47 ` gautier_niouzes
2013-09-22 21:24 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 4:43 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 5:14 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-09-23 6:05 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 23:19 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-09-24 7:10 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 7:00 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 7:55 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 8:31 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 8:37 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 8:52 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 8:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-23 11:31 ` Bill Richards [this message]
2013-09-29 1:04 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-24 1:40 ` Paul Rubin
2013-09-24 7:05 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-24 7:34 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-24 7:49 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-24 10:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-24 10:38 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-24 15:39 ` Paul Rubin
2013-09-28 23:28 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-23 5:55 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 6:12 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 7:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-23 8:36 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 9:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-23 9:39 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 12:16 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 12:54 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 14:32 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 22:06 ` Peter C. Chapin
2013-09-29 1:00 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-23 7:26 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-24 6:03 ` Shark8
2013-09-24 7:51 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-26 20:58 ` erlo
2013-09-24 6:38 ` krfkeith
2013-09-24 23:18 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-09-28 6:21 ` Shark8
2013-09-28 14:40 ` Per Sandberg
2013-09-28 21:54 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
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