larry@JPL-VLSI.ARPA (03/11/86)
My previous query must have gotten lost. So:
Is the posting describing an Ada compiler from the USSR a hoax? If not, what
are the implications? Seems like this is at least as important an issue as
questions about code.
Larry @ jpl-vlsi.arpadavid@ztivax.UUCP (03/17/86)
What is so bizarre about USSR wanting to use some language like Ada? Perhaps because they so often take the practical route instead of the BS route?
hmj@tut.UUCP (Hannu-Matti J{rvinen) (03/19/86)
In article <> larry@jpl-vlsi.arpa.UUCP writes: >Is the posting describing an Ada compiler from the USSR a hoax? No, it is not a hoax. I asked them for more details and they promised to send me some kind of description of the system. If they really send me more information of their system, I'll send a note to this newsgroup.
robert@megaron.UUCP (03/21/86)
About a year ago the connection between the USSR and Ada became rather obvious to me (after having struggled to put together about a 15k line LISPish interpreter parttime for a year or so). Ada is a rather ingenious plot to slow down the US imperialist offensive work around the world by making all these "Software Engineers" (not programmers) labor slowly onwards (and at times backwards) with their projects. These projects will also have to be cut down in scope just to get them out at all. And since things go so slowly, do you think they are going to really test their programs? They will be so full of bugs the reliability question will provoke laughter around the world. Weren't the members of the Green Team from Europe? Certainly they weren't a bunch of sniveling Rambo's; they just led on all the other committees with this greatest of Trojan Horse software programs yet. Reminds me that at least two women from my past have claimed to have poked holes in certain Trojans while on babysitting jobs. Oh, well. By the way, Ada is my maternal grandmother's name, so screw the DoD's registered trademark.
mack@mlokai.DEC (03/22/86)
Aahhh, but are they planning to submit it for validation? :-) -Ralph
arnold@emory.UUCP (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC}) (03/25/86)
The real question is "Which American or European company did they
steal the ADA compiler from?" :-) :-)
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