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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:12:19 GMT
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:06:01 GMT, <adaworks@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Dr. Richard Hamming, a pioneer in computer science I
> once had the honor of knowing, once said of our profession,
> "We stand on the toes of giants."   ...

That reminds me of Per Brinch-Hansen's article about Java's concurrency  
features, which he summarized as ignoring 30+ years of operating system  
and programming language research.

- Ed