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,c23311c4d57b937e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Christopher Browne Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Embedded Keynote Speaker Mentions Ada Date: 18 Sep 2004 03:50:36 GMT Organization: cbbrowne Computing Inc Message-ID: <2r1pkcF15ao02U1@uni-berlin.de> References: <2r1c1jF14e352U1@uni-berlin.de> X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 5zUeDFxGmAys7+QvuPnu8Q1gpwXvzrrgzJPg/Z/dJg8y/sStCg X-Draft-From: ("nntp+wolfe:comp.lang.ada" 12506) X-message-flag: Outlook is rather hackable, isn't it? X-Home-Page: http://www.cbbrowne.com/info/ X-Affero: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=cbbrowne Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3818 Date: 2004-09-18T03:50:36+00:00 List-Id: Quoth "Ed Falis" : > But still, Eric Raymond's observations about software development, > and particularly about programming languages, are naive at best. That actually came up at work today; the observation was made that the main area where he has said things that people have listened to has related to his still flimsier arguments based in economic "theory." (I leave it in "quotes" because what he'd regard as "economic theory" likely has little to do with what economists would regard as such...) -- If this was helpful, rate me http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/linux.html "640K ought to be enough for anybody" -- Bill Gates - 1981