MFELDMAN@GWUVM.BITNET (mike feldman) (08/29/87)
<flame on> Having little better to do in August than catch up on my newsgroup reading, I'm slogging through posting after posting on Ada vs. C, Ada vs. Assembler, and the like. Seems to me I've seen this before. Every few months one of these inane macho debates gets going. I'd like to propose that we call an end to the muscle-flexing and get back to the technical merits (of which there are many) and demerits (of which there are many) of Ada. All those participants who are inflexible partisans of other languages are welcome to join the groups devoted to those languages. How about it? <flame off> On another subject: can we get a show of hands on how many of you can claim having had Grace Hopper as a teacher? I had the great pleasure of taking a course in '67-68 at the University of Pennsylvania. It was called "Business Data Processing"; Hopper was working for Univac at the time, and team-taught the course with a couple of other industry types. Her lectures were thoroughly enjoyable and liberally laced with war stories in all senses of the word "war". During the term, Hopper went back into active service in the Navy; I was in class the night she first wore her powder-blue, WWII-vintage WAVE uniform, which still fit her. One of the truly memorable courses in my grad school career. Michael Feldman, Professor Dept. of EE&CS The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 MFELDMAN%GWUVM.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU