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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Language ranking Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 19:21:58 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls7.std.com 1396567314 8827 192.74.137.71 (3 Apr 2014 23:21:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 23:21:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:402CvPeSyLvRdxAn52CVLQhlFRQ= X-Original-Bytes: 1725 Date: 2014-04-03T19:21:58-04:00 List-Id: "Randy Brukardt" writes: > I bet you didn't expect everyone to semi-seriously answer those questions! ;-) > The truth is, history suggests that lousy solutions end up more successful > than truly well-designed solutions. It seems that way. But not always. Look to an area that's a bit more mature than computer software. For example, cars today are a LOT safer than they were in 1964, and they last longer, too. I think there's hope for improvement in the software industry. >... Must be some sort of ingrained human > thing. (Makes me sad to be human. :-) Better than the alternatives... - Bob