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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-23 11:41:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!skynet.be!skynet.be!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Samuel Tardieu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit addressing and OOP Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 18:40:48 +0000 (UTC) Organization: DnS network Message-ID: References: <9fa75d42.0302250710.5549baaf@posting.google.com> <3E5C7033.BD5DC462@adaworks.com> <9fa75d42.0302260618.7506cba7@posting.google.com> <3E5CF5C6.84822F57@adaworks.com> <8qkczsAcGcn+Ew83@nildram.co.uk> <3EA04A1E.CAFC1FEF@adaworks.com> <9fa75d42.0304221126.7112b7d5@posting.google.com> <3EA62B54.49580F4F@adaworks.com> <9fa75d42.0304230424.10612b1a@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: m34.net81-65-250.noos.fr X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1051123248 92153 81.65.250.34 (23 Apr 2003 18:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 18:40:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (FreeBSD) Cache-Post-Path: willow.dyn.rfc1149.net!unknown@localhost X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36430 Date: 2003-04-23T18:40:48+00:00 List-Id: >> Also, Ada was, >> and is, designed to permit a programmer to get to a very >> low-level of programming, even to the machine code >> level, if it seems appropriate. > > How many times in your whole life have you done this? Many many times. And I hope my life is not over yet :) Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/sam