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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,3025dd6d917b499c X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.180.84.74 with SMTP id w10mr1579967wiy.4.1350183142690; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:52:22 -0700 (PDT) Path: q10ni65116151wif.0!nntp.google.com!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!85.12.40.131.MISMATCH!xlned.com!feeder3.xlned.com!border5.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com!news.astraweb.com!border2.newsrouter.astraweb.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nrc-news.nrc.ca!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada, the best language with the not-so-best tool chain Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:04:01 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <38af7fb8-b0a4-4a31-87aa-b7b698cc89c3@googlegroups.com> <1930oitnyzms0$.1maochag0ph87.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 0Vp4AbLWzWxagIjArPAcVA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.02 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2012-10-11T06:04:01+02:00 List-Id: Le Sun, 07 Oct 2012 20:43:10 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov = a =C3=A9crit: > There is a mental block most people have. They see only the hardware, > assuming software kind of non-essential. But the costs of software > developing, testing and maintenance are far bigger than ones of the > hardware. Except for hard physical constraints (e.g. power consumption= , > weight, durability etc), hardware choice is subordinate. Will quote this with reference on some other place in the future. = Copied/pasted in my notes. -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity