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-Thread: 103376,782af4edeb84c4b7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s21.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: basic basic ada question References: <1161268231.345231.242170@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1qy643kz9ktss$.12j6z88wjcte2$.dlg@40tude.net> <1161272720.704725.208180@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> <6WQZg.1028379$084.76409@attbi_s22> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s21 1161376795 12.201.97.213 (Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:39:55 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:39:55 GMT Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:39:55 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7096 Date: 2006-10-20T20:39:55+00:00 List-Id: Maciej Sobczak wrote: > > Cool sentence, but I know another: "Computers think in C". Computers don't think, but they follow instructions in object code. "Real men write object code." It indicates a good point: SW engineers deal with abstraction and try to ignore or hide implementation details as much as possible. Coders like to try to do everything at a low level. -- Jeff Carter "I was hobbling along, minding my own business, all of a sudden, up he comes, cures me! One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood's gone! Not so much as a 'by your leave!' You're cured, mate. Bloody do-gooder!" Monty Python's Life of Brian 76