From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=3.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R.Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Happy Birthday, Ada! Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 11:35:20 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 10:35:20 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9f560c41c3d486c9433c1252d1ffeea5"; logging-data="1727073"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/a7RO/U50CKNiZ8n87hi1QRP9x0eKdXhk=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.4.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:N/abaxO0xz9Bjn7XJPJnsyvXfug= Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:64694 List-Id: Born this date in 1815/1980. -- Jeff Carter "[I]t is easy to use [Ada] just like any other language: using only predefined types, using packages just for separate compilation (without any consideration for information hiding), ignoring generics altogether, etc. I have seen projects doing this; they didn't get much gain from using Ada, and spent a lot of time fighting the compiler." Jean-Pierre Rosen 165