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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,45b47ecb995e7a3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-13 07:19:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!supernews.com!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B6F1B2F.4FC3C833@gsde.hou.us.ray.com> <5ee5b646.0108071819.6e84e33d@posting.google.com> <3_Xc7.45$NM5.84779@news.pacbell.net> Subject: Re: Ada Idioms Progress Preview Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:19:10 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:19:10 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11849 Date: 2001-08-13T14:19:10+00:00 List-Id: In article , Larry Kilgallen says... > >whether your background is C or Fortran. (Or anything else, but the >original statement, so far as I can tell, is "It is possible to write >Fortran in any language".) The way it was stated in "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" (DATAMATION, July 1983) was: "...the determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language." That at the end of a paragraph describing Ada, no less. :-) (online reference: http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?Real+Programmers+Don%27t+Use+Pascal ) --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com