Posted on 01/29/2018 11:53:11 AM PST by markomalley
Agreed.
THIS IS FAKE NEWS!!!! Unnamed “sources”! This is the “death by a thousand cuts” type of story meant to promote Trump as being a dictator.
Trump needs a Rapid Response team to squash all of these FAKE news reports.
I wouldn’t trust Obama or his ilk with that kind of power.
A government run 5G would work like the Obamacare website.
The USA has a 3rd world Federal Government. It really runs no more efficiently than say, Brazil’s or Turkey’s
The key is keeping it at bay, while free (and responsible) Americans run things themselves.
Windows is free?
They were all behind the Government taking over the Internet though!
Careful, you’ll be accused of “tinfoil” like I was when I said basically the same thing to some coworkers over 10 years ago.
Axios is Comcast!
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Commissioners don’t make the law, they enforce it.
Who cares whatr they think?
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That was in the beginning, when they were just trying this and that.
If they had any clue what it would turn into they would have kept it all to themselves.
And trust me- I was there for FIDONET.
Before they knew what was happening it had grown a million times over.
I worked for a military and NASA contractor at the time. We were in competition to design the DoD-I language that became Ada. Came in 2nd. But we used that network to communicate at the time.
I remember that: “Green is ADA”
In the 2nd phase, green was beating us. Biggest problem for us - lack of integrity. Each part was lovely but they didn’t fit together. Our main designer returned from Germany just in time to take over the final phase. Seeing the problem, he threw out red and created RED. THAT had integrity. The problem was that it took the whole phase to finish. By the end of the phase, the language was exquisite. AND we had a compiler to prove it. But everyone was writing books about and course syllabi about Green. So no one was paying attention to us. They’d get on a plane intending to vote Green, read us FINALLY and change their vote to Red. And then we got to the voting place. Oh, and Green couldn’t get a compiler going so they convinced the judges to throw the compiler part out of consideration. But the AF had decided on Green and it had to be unanimous. So they sent a lieutenant. The man knew nothing about the languages, was instructed to vote for Green, and instructed not discuss the matter. The man from DCA was physically shaking in his seat. But unanimous it had to be and it was Green. Jean stood on stage and said the language was the same and it had changed massively. He was right. He’d left the syntax the same and changed the underlying semantics. Our company was paid for a year to fix Jean’s mistakes.
http://www.iment.com/maida/computer/redref/index.htm
After the contest, I started Ada LETTERS and the AdaTEC organization. I was chair of Programming Languages and pulled AdaTEC into that organization eventually. I was also the consultant to Time/Life’s Programming Languages book and the best thing I think I’ve done with my life was spend the time telling them about Bill Whitaker, who came up with the idea and thought everyone would forget him. When the book came out I called him and read him all the sections about him and told him that now he’d never be forgotten. I remember a medal he had on his chest (AF) that he explained was for the calculations done so that when you dropped a nuclear bomb, you could get the plane the heck out of there. Absolutely lovely man.
Did anything ever become of RED?
And to me, ADA always looked like something designed by a government committee.
It lacked ‘elegance’. It just seemed like C with some new features and different syntax.
No. We purposely let it drop because we wanted to win contracts for working with Ada. Keeping up Red would have been VERY bad politics.
The contest was NEVER about pushing the state of the art. It was about doing tried and true several year old technology. Remember, the big thing at the time was that the services couldn’t communicate through languages. These were still the days when people wrote simulators for a machine simulating an older machine simulating a still older machine, and on it sat a compiler compiling some unused language.
The rules were that the result for each language would be Ada PLUS two of their own languages. The Navy chose SPL/I, a language I worked on and a book I wrote, and oh, my mind is freezing for the other. We never got far enough with CS-4. I’m thinking it was a SofTech language but my mind is mud. The army had TACPOL[E?] which became the army standard language because it was the only one they could find used on two separate projects. I’m afraid it’s been too many years. I’m fuzzing on details I used to know.
each language ==> each service
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