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: 2004-02-15 14:15:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!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: <7ridnSngofCUybDd4p2dnA@comcast.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:15:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.72.70.80 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1076883329 12.72.70.80 (Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:15:29 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:15:29 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5584 Date: 2004-02-15T22:15:29+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:47:36 -0500, Robert I. Eachus wrote: > > France of course, but not in French. Do you know of any other country > where the man touted as the most brilliant General (Napolean) is more > famous for his losses than his victories. Of course, Russian peasants were telling a story a hundred years later where Napoleonder was a creation of the Devil and, after the enemy killed his army, he could raise them as undead by saying his name. It wasn't merely the French who were impressed with Napoleon.