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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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On 2018-04-29 17:09, Paul Rubin wrote:
> patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org writes:
>> They can write web servers and whatever else they want with it. See
>> the problems on this list.... A great guy is writing 1M lines of code
>> to create a web server and someone has to put him down for
>> it.....senseless and more arrogance
> 
> If you meant me, no it wasn't my intention to put Jacob down.  He is
> very knowledgeable and a great programmer and I admire him.  But, I
> don't understand the choice to write 1M lines of Ada for a web server.
> 

A more likely interpretation is that Jacob put a webserver on EXISTING code.
That he did not write 1M code to CREATE a web server,
but he put a web server on, say a process that is part of a Warehouse
Management System. They tend to live for many years (20-30 years are not
unheard of)


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