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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e0e1d3b3f7c994b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!out01b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in04.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!130.81.64.211.MISMATCH!cycny01.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny03.POSTED!c2bfcbcf!not-for-mail Subject: Re: Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over other langauges in multiprocessing! From: "Ed Falis" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <13t4b2kkjem20f3@corp.supernews.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.26 (Linux) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:43:52 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.184.110.64 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny03 1205527432 71.184.110.64 (Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:43:52 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:43:52 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20399 Date: 2008-03-14T20:43:52+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:20:55 -0400, Mike Silva wrote: > Me, I'm just enjoying (in a melancholy way) the quote from the paper > Dr. Dewar mentioned: > > "The 1980s will probably be remembered as the decade in which > programmers took a gigantic step backwards by switching from > secure Pascal-like languages to insecure C-like languages. I have > no rational explanation for this trend." Didn't Richard Gabriel from Stanford cover the larger trend in his "Worse is Better" paper? http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html