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From: Bill Richards <billrich@gmx.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:31:26 +0000 (UTC)
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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