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,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed101.telia.com!nf02.dk.telia.net!news-stob.telia.net!telia.net!217.209.241.173.MISMATCH!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: sv, sv-se, sv-fi, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <6F2Yc.848$8d1.621@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <87eklg62x8.fsf@news.bourguet.org> <878ybnmdzi.fsf@news.bourguet.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 22:34:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1094596452 217.209.116.179 (Wed, 08 Sep 2004 00:34:12 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 00:34:12 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3454 Date: 2004-09-07T22:34:12+00:00 List-Id: jayessay wrote: > I'm not tring to convince anyone to use dynamic typing and languages > here. I'm just trying to ensure that lurkers and others here are not > getting some goofy incorrect view of what they are and how they work. Lurking in this thread I note once again that zealots occur not only in=20 the Ada camp, because this Jayessay guy is obviously a Lisp zealot who's = firmly convinced that anything that isn't Common Lisp is broken. But I suspect that that isn't quite the view you're trying to ensure=20 that I get. --=20 Bj=F6rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu