Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!sei!ajpo!progers From: progers@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Pat Rogers) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada tasking Summary: So much for Hoare! Message-ID: <676@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 25 May 90 18:05:01 GMT References: <20075@grebyn.com> Lines: 23 In article <20075@grebyn.com>, ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden) writes: > > From: Jeffrey M. Schweiger, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA > > >In his book, Hoare does not seem to be very upset with Ada, either, ... > > ...... > > Probably the DOD got to him somehow or other; maybe put a horses head > in bed with him like in Godfather I ... who knows; made him promise to > say SOMETHING nice about Ada and the statement about semetrically > parallel machines (like the Sequent) was probably all he could think of. > Well, now that Hoare has been removed from the list of supposed supporters for this noise, with his usefulness thus lost Mr. Holden trashes his integrity. Sheesh! I hope (for any of a number of reasons) that I am never considered a peer too. (Not likely, I know, gratefully.) P Rogers Software Arts and Sciences progers@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu