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,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-08 01:37:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.cs.univ-paris8.fr!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Marius Amado Alves" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototypinglanguage) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:34:53 -0700 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <20040206174017.7E84F4C4114@lovelace.ada-france.org><54759e7e.0402071124.322ea376@posting.google.com> <406EB6D2.8030801@noplace.com><87d66pyw1g.fsf@insalien.org> <406EEC35.7040109@noplace.com><874qs0zvy1.fsf@insalien.org> <40714C98.90601@noplace.com><1073gv22t969q5a@corp.supernews.com> <40729B9D.30906@noplace.com><1076000ef5oj06f@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1081413387 39837 212.85.156.195 (8 Apr 2004 08:36:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:36:27 +0000 (UTC) To: Return-Path: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Apr 2004 08:36:04.0261 (UTC) FILETIME=[8790C550:01C41D44] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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:6837 Date: 2004-04-08T10:34:53-07:00 > > So let me pose a stupid question to you, David. Why do you waste your > > time whining here? Or don't you recognize that that's what you're doing? > > well... that's not so stupid Right. The interpretation of "stupid" as "obvious" must be the most stupid and less obvious one :-) Unfortunately it's an established metaphor, at least in the "stupid question" collocation.