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: 103376,325c54deb91283fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-24 08:21:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in Iraq Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1051197677 29060 129.241.83.78 (24 Apr 2003 15:21:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:21:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36480 Date: 2003-04-24T15:21:17+00:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > I can cite one counter example, myself. Having seen my graduate students go > off to the Vietnam War, I was and am still not enthused about military > action. However, the thought of applying an excellent technology that was > developed by the DoD, Ada, to detect cancer cells was very appealing. > Prejudice against a technology because of its source is stupid, just like > most prejudice. You are talking about something else here. I have never had any problems with Ada being funded by DoD. What I don't think will promote Ada is to talk about the usage of it in bombs and similar. Try saying "We only killed about 2000-3000 civilians because we used rockets programmed in language X" It comes out wrong in any context with civilians IMHO. Emphasis on the usage in planes, trains, air-traffic controls etc.. on the other hand... -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/