From: Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Teaching C/C++ from Ada perspective?
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2018 19:39:30 +0100
Date: 2018-07-08T19:39:30+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0001HW.20F291E2002A542F70000C5E92CF@news.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1ab5db5c-7892-40a8-ae36-ca1ec1168768@googlegroups.com
On 8 Jul 2018, Dan'l Miller wrote
(in article<1ab5db5c-7892-40a8-ae36-ca1ec1168768@googlegroups.com>):
> If there is one single root-cause reason that Ada failed to launch
> on the launchpad from, say, 1985 to 1993, it was this spurned-detest of Ada
> in telecom, not because of what was in or not in Ada, but because telecom was
> excluded from the selection process.
There is another.
The right-on then-dominant faction in CS academia,
who might have been expected to welcome a language soundly based on SE
principles,
boycotted it without further consideration, simply because it originated in
the DoD.
That attitude persists in some quarters, BTW.
Oh, and the reptilian demeanour of some Ada compiler salespersons didn't
help.
The ones who creeped me out were from Plaid Workshops (or something like
that).
--
Bill Findlay
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2018-06-30 18:04 Teaching C/C++ from Ada perspective? kouaoua16
2018-06-30 18:15 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-06-30 19:27 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-06-30 19:07 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-01 16:12 ` kouaoua16
2018-07-01 17:08 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-07-01 19:19 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-02 6:12 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-01 20:52 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-01 21:35 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-02 5:56 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-02 9:58 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2018-07-02 11:03 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-02 13:52 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2018-07-04 12:10 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-02 20:14 ` Paul Rubin
2018-07-03 9:48 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2018-07-04 2:52 ` Paul Rubin
2018-07-02 18:52 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-03 8:00 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-03 12:40 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-03 20:54 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-04 3:10 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-04 7:59 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-04 8:37 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2018-07-04 12:22 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-04 14:13 ` Simon Wright
2018-07-04 14:56 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-04 15:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-04 16:24 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-07-04 20:00 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-07-05 18:35 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-05 19:39 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-07-06 18:45 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-04 20:13 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-04 21:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-05 5:49 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-05 7:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-05 13:14 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-05 15:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-05 19:16 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-07 15:09 ` Lucretia
2018-07-05 19:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-05 20:10 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-06 19:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-06 19:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-05 7:43 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-07-05 18:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-05 19:06 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-06 18:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-05 20:12 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-06 18:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-06 19:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-06 20:18 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-07 8:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-07 11:53 ` Björn Lundin
2018-07-06 20:22 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-06 23:26 ` Paul Rubin
2018-07-07 6:17 ` J-P. Rosen
2018-07-07 6:37 ` Micronian Coder
2018-07-07 8:48 ` Privacy and child packages (Was: Teaching C/C++ from Ada perspective?) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2018-07-07 20:19 ` Teaching C/C++ from Ada perspective? Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-08 15:25 ` Simon Wright
2018-07-08 20:00 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-09 9:04 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-07-05 15:30 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-05 20:38 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-05 21:05 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-05 18:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-04 16:01 ` Simon Wright
2018-07-04 17:12 ` G. B.
2018-07-04 20:18 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-04 21:03 ` G.B.
2018-07-04 17:21 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-04 20:36 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-04 22:44 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-05 2:01 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-07-05 5:03 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-05 5:58 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-05 19:25 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-05 19:22 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-05 18:31 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-06 3:32 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-06 12:05 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-06 20:42 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-06 21:32 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-07 20:43 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-08 17:36 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-08 18:39 ` Bill Findlay [this message]
2018-07-08 19:28 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-09 12:34 ` Bill Findlay
2018-07-09 15:19 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-09 19:34 ` Bill Findlay
2018-07-09 22:03 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-09 22:35 ` Bill Findlay
2018-07-10 1:56 ` Lucretia
2018-07-10 23:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-11 14:05 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-11 20:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-08 20:43 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-08 23:17 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-09 6:13 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-09 16:35 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-10 23:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-10 23:51 ` Britt
2018-07-02 17:10 ` kouaoua16
2018-07-02 17:28 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2018-07-02 18:22 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-07-02 20:27 ` G.B.
2018-07-02 0:11 ` Paul Rubin
2018-07-02 14:26 ` kouaoua16
2018-07-02 19:57 ` G.B.
2018-07-02 20:17 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-03 9:56 ` Brian Drummond
2018-07-04 12:18 ` Olivier Henley
2018-07-04 14:17 ` kouaoua16
2018-07-12 5:38 ` robin.vowels
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