From: "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant)
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:32:54 -0400
Date: 2013-09-20T19:32:54-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nospam-CFB147.19325420092013@news.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2f813569-5ff8-4c20-a5ab-8538e6514906@googlegroups.com
In article <2f813569-5ff8-4c20-a5ab-8538e6514906@googlegroups.com>,
krfkeith@gmail.com wrote:
> http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/a/Ada.html
>
> <snip>
> Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is
> precisely what one might expect given that kind of endorsement by
> fiat; designed by committee, crockish, difficult to use, and overall
> a disastrous, multi-billion-dollar boondoggle (one common description
> is "The PL/I of the 1980s"). Hackers find Ada's exception-handling
> and inter-process communication features particularly hilarious.
> </snip>
The editorial bias is epitomized in these two links:
<http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/b/bondage-and-disciplinelanguage.html>
<http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/l/languagesofchoice.html>
The C programming language fares only slightly better:
<http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/c/C.html>
Which reminds me of Greenspun's tenth rule & corollary, disingenuously
missing from the jargon file itself:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_tenth_rule>
--
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>
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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 [this message]
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
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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