Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!jrdzzz.jrd.dec.com!tkou02.enet.dec.com!jit533!diamond From: diamond@jit533.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Re: Functions without side effects (was Old confusion) Message-ID: <1991Jun24.091741.29491@tkou02.enet.dec.com> Date: 24 Jun 91 09:17:41 GMT References: Sender: usenet@tkou02.enet.dec.com (USENET News System) Reply-To: diamond@jit533.enet@tkou02.enet.dec.com (Norman Diamond) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo Lines: 15 In article philbo@arasta.uucp (Phillip Lindsay) writes: >Really, Jim, it is getting very old. Yes but... >I prefer not to like Ada (having spent three years doing Ada >related DOD development). Oh come on now, you don't judge a language on the basis of one of its customers. The military uses computers; doesn't that make you prefer not to like computers? -- Norman Diamond diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it. Permission is granted to feel this signature, but not to look at it.