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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-08 12:55:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Starner Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity. (Debian GNU/Linux)) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 20:55:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.72.183.131 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1076273757 12.72.183.131 (Sun, 08 Feb 2004 20:55:57 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 20:55:57 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5347 Date: 2004-02-08T20:55:57+00:00 List-Id: On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 19:02:50 +0300, Alexandre E. Kopilovitch wrote: > David Starner wrote: > >> The goal of programming is to produce programs that get the job done. > > [...] I must tell you that this statement is severely > flawed. Programming is not covered by compilation and scripting. Generally, > major part of programming is to define precisely and formally, *what* is the > job, and what does it mean that this job *is done*. And once you have the program at a state where it needs no more programming, all that goes into a drawer and disappears. That is part of what needs to be done to get a program that gets the job done, but that's not part of the goal; that's part of the process.