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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f849b,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 101b33,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid101b33,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public From: Matthew Heaney Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 433220094 Sender: matt@mheaney.ni.net References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369C4F71.72E62F8E@GoAway.com> <369CBBC5.5CBE@telusplanet.net> <369E0F70.FA815A62@spam.innocon.com> NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:33:50 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java,comp.java.advocacy,comp.realtime,comp.arch.embedded,comp.object,comp.lang.java.programmer Date: 1999-01-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jeff Carter writes: > I wasn't aware of a mystique surrounding Ada, but maybe that's because > I've been using it happily whenever possible for 15 years. > > (We'd prefer you didn't tell people that Ada has a goto. We don't want > people who like goto's to use Ada.) Oh dear, I think I've been ostracized... -- Those who believe in the supernatural should be required to learn computer programming. This would force them to discover that things which appear at first to be completely mysterious and incomprehensible, in fact have a logical (and usually simple) explanation. --J.B.R. Yant