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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed 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!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny09.POSTED!0e8a908a!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <413e2fbd$0$30586$626a14ce@news.free.fr> <1371289.WCcgO7lass@linux1.krischik.com> <1094926196.802462@yasure> <1153993.mxNGp3fqa3@linux1.krischik.com> In-Reply-To: <1153993.mxNGp3fqa3@linux1.krischik.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:30:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.161.52.48 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny09 1095035429 68.161.52.48 (Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:30:29 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:30:29 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3642 Date: 2004-09-13T00:30:29+00:00 List-Id: Martin Krischik wrote: > The hole mentality of C/C++ programmers is just different. They spend so > much time with the a debugger they don't have time to read standards. It will probably not surprise you that I own the C and C++ standards, including the 2003 revision of the latter, and refer to them constantly. By the way, did you know that the C++ standard contains a hidden limerick? Look at 14.7.3/7.