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: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-21 04:41:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!nnx.oleane.net!oleane!freenix!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/prototyping language) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:58:42 +0100 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: Reply-To: amado.alves@netcabo.pt NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1082547539 82084 212.85.156.195 (21 Apr 2004 11:38:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:38:59 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 In-Reply-To: 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:7378 Date: 2004-04-21T12:58:42+01:00 On Wednesday 21 April 2004 10:29, Dmitry A.Kazakov wrote: > ... air bags will be inflated by > software. There are also other interesting innovations: brake-by-wire, > stir-by-wire, which names need not to be explained. Enjoy! (Getting off topic.) My wife had a nasty experience with our Citroen Xsara Picasso. Doing a cu= rve=20 she turned the driving wheel but the damn machine didn't respond until th= e=20 last split second before hitting the road side barrier (she didn't hit).=20 Maybe the driving wheel is sending emails! We're still driving the same c= ar=20 thou. Maybe we should know better and change. But to what? Is there an 10= 0%=20 Ada car out there? The travel computer also goes beserk often with simple things (the radio = does=20 not turn on, or off, etc.) We have to stop, turn off the engine, with 15=20 secs, and turn it on again! This used to be a joke a couple of years back= ,=20 now it's real! And I'm always expecting the 4 or 6 or 8 airbags to inflate some day for = no=20 reason, as it has been reported to happen. And the user interface really sucks. /* I feel a bit more safer and confortable driving our little Fiat Punto.= And=20 before I had a Hunday Atos, a Fiat Panda, a Citroen AX, a Renault 5, a Fo= rd=20 can't-remember-the-modelname, a Fiat 600, and a Fiat 850 sport coupe. All= =20 really nice, except the AX which had unreliable electric windows. You'd l= ike=20 to keep it simple. But unfortunately you have to 'upgrade' to escape risi= ng=20 maintance costs. An then you have to buy and live with all the stupid=20 innovations. */