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From: "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant)
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:32:54 -0400
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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>