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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,103b407e8b68350b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-02 17:20:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!news.mailgate.org!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea.. Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 04:18:07 +0300 (MSK) Organization: h w c employees, b f Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1041556803 28551 137.194.161.2 (3 Jan 2003 01:20:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 01:20:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32466 Date: 2003-01-03T04:18:07+03:00 Bill Findlay wrote: >In a language controversy on comp.arch a few weeks ago, some of us came to >the conclusion that a lot of the irrational antipathy to Ada was based on >unregenerate machismo. Real Programmers � don't want to hear about "software >safety" (obviously a namby-pamby concern) and they certainly don't want >their code criticized by Ada (a mere slip of girl). > >I suggested that we Ada proponents should talk instead about "aggressive bug >destruction" and that the 0Y committee should look at changing the name to >something that exudes testosterone. My first idea was "Rocky", but "Brutus" >attracted more support. Well, if the gender matters here then... THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES (R. Kipling, 1911) When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly that the male. When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man, He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can. But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside her trail, For the female of the species is more deadly that the male. When the early Jesuit fathers preached the Hurons and Choctaws, They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws. 'Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale, For the female of the species is more deadly that the male. Man's timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say, For the Woman that God gave him isn't his to give away; But the hunter meets with husband, each confirms the other's tale-- For the female of the species is more deadly that the male. Man, a bear in most relations--worm and savage otherwise,-- Man propounds negotiations, Man accepts the compromise. Very rarely will he squarely push his logic of a fact To its ultimate conclusion in unmitigated act. Fear, or foolishness, impels him, ere he lay the wicked low, To concede some form of trial even to his fiercest foe. Mirth obscene diverts his anger--Doubt and Pity oft perplex Him in dealing with an issue--to the scandal of The Sex! But the Woman that God gives him, every fibre of her frame Proves her launched for sole issue, armed and engined for the same; And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail, The female of the species must be deadlier that the male. She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast May not deal in doubt or pity--must not swerve for fact or jest. These be purely male diversions--not in these her honour dweils, She the Other Law we live by, is that Law and nothing else. She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate. And whe Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unclaimed to claim Her right as femme (and baron), and equipment is the same. She is wedded to convictions--in default of grosser ties; Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies!-- He will meet no snave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild, Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child. Unprovoked and awful charges--even so the she-bear fights, Speech that drips, corrodes, and poisons--even so the cobra bites, Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw And the victim writhes in anguish--like the Jesuit with the squaw! So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands To some God of Abstract Justice--which no woman understands. And Man knows it! Knows moreover, that the Woman that God gave him Must command but may not govern--shall enthral but not enslave him. And ~She~ knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail That the Female of Her Species is more deadly that the Male.