Re: STOP!!! (WAS: Why don't large companies use Ada?)

From: Dean Souleles <dsoulele_at_uccs.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 18 Nov 1994 00:53:50 GMT
Message-ID: <3agtuu$4nu_at_netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>


In article <3ae1li$jsc_at_canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>, Q Vincent Yin <umyin_at_raphael.mctrf.mb.ca> wrote:
>In <784995260snz_at_rippleco.demon.co.uk> Doug_at_rippleco.demon.co.uk (Doug Robertson) writes:
>
>>My question is - why do Universities teach Ada - sometimes as
>>the main language on courses ?
>>--
>>Doug
>
>Same thing for Pascal. But the point is: I see that the article is
>cross posted to:
>comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object,comp.databases.sybase,comp.databases.oracle,comp.client-server
>
>Could you guys stop cross-posting to comp.databases.sybase. We Sybase
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>sa/programmers don't care about your opinion of Ada!!!!!!!
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>

Except for those of us who write our Sybase access code in Ada.

-- 
Dean Souleles                  dsoulele_at_uccs.jpl.nasa.gov
Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
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Pasadena, CA 91109
Received on Fri Nov 18 1994 - 01:53:50 CET

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