From: "Richard Riehle" <adaworks@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Why I like Ada
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 02:07:21 GMT
Date: 2004-05-31T02:07:21+00:00 [thread overview]
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"Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 30 May 2004 18:06:18 GMT, "Richard Riehle"
> <adaworks@earthlink.net> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
>
> >
> > Back in the 1908's, when I first started coding Ada, I found myself
>
> <snort><snicker>Are you sure you weren't dating her? <G>
> Granted, she'd have to be in her 90s by then...
>
> Sorry -- I know you meant 1980s, but the transposition makes for such an
> image...
Dennis, there are those who know me well enough to wonder whether
I might not have actually meant 1908, given my seeming antiquity.
However, notwithstanding that antiquity, I did not actually begin writing
programs in the Ada language until the 1980's.
My 1908 programming was limited to filing sprockets for cuckoo clocks. :-)
Richard
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-22 0:39 Why I like Ada Fionn mac Cuimhaill
2004-05-22 14:11 ` Per Dalgas Jakobsen
2004-05-22 15:23 ` Preben Randhol
2004-05-22 16:27 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-25 21:29 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-05-26 7:44 ` Peter Amey
2004-05-26 8:18 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-26 16:15 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-26 19:33 ` David Starner
2004-05-30 18:06 ` Richard Riehle
2004-05-30 18:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-05-30 19:09 ` Adrian Knoth
2004-05-31 13:27 ` Björn Persson
[not found] ` <inpkb0d57uiaf6970hk0ctj09orni4piea@4ax.com>
2004-05-31 2:07 ` Richard Riehle [this message]
2004-05-26 15:30 ` Wes Groleau
2004-06-01 3:57 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-02 1:48 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-02 5:13 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-05-22 22:01 ` Wes Groleau
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1994-12-02 9:44 Richard A. O'Keefe
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