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!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!feed3.news.rcn.net!not-for-mail Sender: jsa@rigel.goldenthreadtech.com 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> From: jayessay Organization: Tangible Date: 08 Sep 2004 12:28:14 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: DXC=eb^R?koJeNh8BTSjC[iH5h0R]m=BkYWIg:6bU3OT9S9jmU87W:XOKCm^aM2i8keRmm3nZV5\TK1ci X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3492 Date: 2004-09-08T12:28:14-04:00 List-Id: Bj�rn Persson writes: > 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 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. No, Common Lisp is broken as well... /Jon -- 'j' - a n t h o n y at romeo/charley/november com