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From: mojaveg@ridgecrest.ca.us (Everett M. Greene)
Subject: Re: How many different processors do you use?
Date: 1999/06/10
Date: 1999-06-10T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990610.7A689D8.FF4B@mojaveg.ridgecrest.ca.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7jl9n3$n9j$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk

In article <7jl9n3$n9j$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn) writes:
> In article <7jjij7$qci$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, muddy_buddy@my-deja.com writes:
> |> BTW I know Ada and it is better than C, though the tools aren't too
> |> hot.
> 
> Oh, you definitely should have a look at Ada again! Things have
> improved *dramatically* in the last 2-3 years. The old 1983 Ada
> language (which was quite nice but had a few nasty quirks)
> was significantly revised in 1995 and has now become Ada95
> [snip]
> You *really* should have a look again at Ada95 and the tools
> available in 1999 and forget *everything* that you knew about the
> popularity of Ada before 1997.
> [snip]

It took 16 years to produce something which is useful?

And this is after it took 10+ years to get to the `83
product?

To say that this speed is glacial is an insult to glaciers.

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Everett M. Greene   (The Mojave Greene, crotalus scutulatus scutulatus)
Ridgecrest, Ca. 93555           Path: mojaveg@ridgecrest.ca.us




  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-06-10  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]   ` <7j8ac0$eah$1@uranium.btinternet.com>
     [not found]     ` <7jh07e$tek$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
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1999-06-08  0:00         ` How many different processors do you use? muddy_buddy
1999-06-08  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-09  0:00             ` Something doesn't compute here (was Re: How many different processors do you use?) David Kristola
1999-06-09  0:00               ` Jerry Petrey
1999-06-09  0:00                 ` Jim Prince
1999-06-12  0:00                   ` Aidan Skinner
1999-06-09  0:00               ` Elizabeth D Rather
1999-06-09  0:00             ` How many different processors do you use? muddy_buddy
1999-06-09  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-09  0:00                 ` muddy_buddy
1999-06-10  0:00                   ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-06-10  0:00                   ` tmoran
1999-06-10  0:00                     ` muddy_buddy
1999-06-10  0:00                       ` tmoran
1999-06-10  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10  0:00                     ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-10  0:00                     ` muddy_buddy
1999-06-10  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-11  0:00                         ` muddy_buddy
1999-06-12  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-12  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10  0:00                       ` tmoran
1999-06-10  0:00                       ` dennison
1999-06-10  0:00                         ` Robert B. Love 
1999-06-11  0:00                           ` muddy_buddy
1999-06-10  0:00                 ` rawcswi
1999-06-10  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10  0:00                     ` rawcswi
1999-06-20  0:00                       ` Eric Roesinger
1999-06-09  0:00           ` Matt Cox
1999-06-09  0:00           ` Markus Kuhn
1999-06-09  0:00             ` Jon Kirwan
1999-06-09  0:00               ` dennison
1999-06-09  0:00               ` Markus Kuhn
1999-06-09  0:00               ` Ada95 (was: How many different processors do you use?) Markus Kuhn
1999-06-09  0:00               ` How many different processors do you use? Ed Avis
1999-06-10  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10  0:00                 ` Jon Kirwan
1999-06-10  0:00               ` John Kodis
1999-06-09  0:00                 ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-09  0:00                 ` martin lytz
1999-06-10  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10  0:00                 ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-10  0:00                   ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-10  0:00                   ` Steve O'Neill
1999-06-10  0:00                     ` Fraser Wilson
     [not found]                     ` <7jpb1e$ic8$1@remarq.com>
1999-06-11  0:00                       ` fraser
1999-06-11  0:00                         ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-11  0:00                     ` David Botton
1999-06-10  0:00             ` Everett M. Greene [this message]
1999-06-11  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-11  0:00                 ` Dave Hansen
1999-06-11  0:00                   ` martin lytz
1999-06-12  0:00                 ` Roger Espel Llima
1999-06-11  0:00               ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-06-12  0:00               ` mjsilva
1999-06-14  0:00                 ` Everett M. Greene
1999-06-25  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-26  0:00                     ` Everett M. Greene
1999-06-28  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-12  0:00               ` markh
1999-06-12  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-13  0:00                   ` markh
1999-06-25  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-25  0:00                       ` Lew Pitcher
1999-06-28  0:00                         ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-28  0:00                           ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-28  0:00                             ` Dan Nagle
1999-06-28  0:00                         ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-28  0:00                           ` Michael A. Covington
1999-06-28  0:00                             ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-29  0:00                               ` Michael A. Covington
1999-06-29  0:00                                 ` Richard Kettlewell
1999-06-30  0:00                                   ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-07-08  0:00                                     ` Stefan Skoglund
1999-07-09  0:00                                       ` no-one
1999-06-28  0:00                         ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10  0:00             ` Greg Martin
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