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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,54889de51045a215 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-22 20:14:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Early Ada Mistakes (was: Re: += in ada) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 07:21:15 +0400 (MSD) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1066878837 74486 80.67.180.195 (23 Oct 2003 03:13:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:13:57 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: ; from Ed Falis at Wed, 22 Oct 2003 21:49:53 GMT X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p5 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1483 Date: 2003-10-23T07:21:15+04:00 Ed Falis wrote: >Someone should write a biography of Ada along the lines of "Soul of a New >Machine". All of the dramatic elements are there for the general >entertainment. I have read "Soul of a New Machine" about 15 years ago, and I still remember it. And I don't think that it is possible to compose something similar about Ada, because a problem of hardware (in broad sense, it shouldn't be necessarily computers). Hardware must be in place, you can't produce really good literature about software only... because that software must have a valid purpose (without known purpose all software-related problems will look just as a kind of soap opera). And I think that this is particularly true for Ada. So, if you include both Ada and hardware, you'll get not a small book, but a huge volume. Then, look at the characters: those in "Soul..." are good persons, but even the main character is still not heavyweight - and what we have in Ada history in this respect? Although... if you ask Tim Rice, perhaps he will find it an interesting idea? -:) Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia Ed Falis wrote: >Someone should write a biography of Ada along the lines of "Soul of a New >Machine". All of the dramatic elements are there for the general >entertainment. I have read "Soul of a New Machine" about 15 years ago, and I still remember it. And I don't think that it is possible to compose something similar about Ada, because a problem of hardware (in broad sense, it shouldn't be necessarily computers). Hardware must be in place, you can't produce really good literature about software only... because that software must have a valid purpose (without known purpose all software-related problems will look just as a kind of soap opera). And I think that this is particularly true for Ada. So, if you include both Ada and hardware, you'll get not a small book, but a huge volume. Then, look at the characters: those in "Soul..." are good persons, but even the main character is still not heavyweight - and what we have in Ada history in this respect? Although... if you ask Tim Rice, perhaps he will find it an interesting idea? -:) Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia