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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-15 14:12:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out1.nntp.be!propagator4-cogent.newsfeed.com!propagator2-sterling!news-in.nuthinbutnews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!c2bfcbcf!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Comparative military mythology (was: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language)) References: <7ridnSngofCUybDd4p2dnA@comcast.com> Message-ID: From: Ed Falis Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Opera7.23/Linux M2 build 518 Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:12:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.160.149.112 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1076883143 68.160.149.112 (Sun, 15 Feb 2004 17:12:23 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 17:12:23 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5583 Date: 2004-02-15T22:12:23+00:00 List-Id: On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 21:53:54 GMT, Bj�rn Persson wrote: > We may compare ourselves to the vikings or talk about "the language of > glory and heroes", but that's in a joking manner. Maybe 190 years of > peace does that to a people. > Do you think that's a good or a bad thing? I suspect it's a mixed blessing, unless the language of glory and heroes has been sublimated to something else that is worthy. Perhaps demonstrating how to live civilly has some claim to heroism? Yes, this is clearly going off-topic ;-) - Ed