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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4feb499c05063194 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:02:49 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:02:14 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau+news@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Macintosh/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Artistically creative expression has no role in software design References: <2m2j9gFhf4cpU1@uni-berlin.de> <2037155.DSSJocQ4yI@linux1.krischik.com> <157lmx3vx3yea$.1thsads2cv8rx.dlg@40tude.net> In-Reply-To: <157lmx3vx3yea$.1thsads2cv8rx.dlg@40tude.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.24 X-Trace: sv3-sieHz/1GXsUE/xoqi6Fud3UZY8JrDVS83O523gcS00L94ANDgBE+zM0JRYtf9I/HB0i7Uh7eMB4Ztir!7ynZaeycXIVra0oZU1uZxz7n1cV6GYEYFysipYWWHnYPJPFELgbfDye9K76Q0/absm7w2ApM6vFC X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2284 Date: 2004-07-20T13:02:14-05:00 List-Id: > Right, but the author emphasizes that possibility is nothing, intent and > purpose is everything: > > "... [snip] Consequently, the fact that source code reads like the English > language gives the wrong impression as to its true nature." Oh, THAT'S why Ada, Cobol, and SQL are more evil than C and C++ :-) -- Wes Groleau Armchair Activism: http://www.breakthechain.org/armchair.html