From: Bill Richards <billrich@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant)
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:05:13 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2013-09-24T07:05:13+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l1rdj8$uge$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7xeh8fxahu.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com
On 2013-09-24, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Bill Richards <billrich@gmx.com> writes:
>> 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. If they spent as much time polishing their
>> code as they do their silly communist license boilerplate we'd have
>> quite a different situation by now ;-)
>
I was referring to the difference between the Ada world-view and the UNIX
(Linux) world view.
> I wonder if you use the Adacore GNAT compiler, and if so, where you
> think most of the code in it came from. Hint:
> http://www.adacore.com/gnatpro/toolsuite/
We don't use it where I work although I've used the so-called gcc-ada for
some personal projects. I'm well aware where it comes from. I paid for
it. And so did anyone else who was paying U.S. income tax when NYU received
the federal grant to develop it. It's a neat trick that somebody was able to
turn a federally-funded educational software development project into a
private, for-profit business. Hint: the code was not GPL until after 3.15p.
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
2013-09-29 1:04 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-24 1:40 ` Paul Rubin
2013-09-24 7:05 ` Bill Richards [this message]
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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