From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a4a373312601ca4b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: CompUSA New Policy Date: 1999/02/28 Message-ID: <1999Feb28.071208.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 449494224 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <36CC64A1.3E98D9B4@Botton.com> <7avmc6$gvf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7b16dn$p0e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <1999Feb24.131906.1@eisner> <7b3oah$teq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7b4fod$kd4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7b4lhn$465@drn.newsguy.com> <7b53kl$6f1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7b59m9$a4v@drn.newsguy.com> <7bagdq$kn9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7baj6j$e57@drn.newsguy.com> X-Trace: news.decus.org 920203930 19978 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7baj6j$e57@drn.newsguy.com>, bill@ writes: > Any way. The whole active X, VB, COM, Windows world is dying. You might not > see it now, but wait 2-3 years. The new revolution in software is > happening in the world of open source and the GNU/Linux/Apache and all > of this will become the new platform where exciting things will be > developed on (and hopefully Ada will be part of this). And when windows > die, VB will die with it since that is only place it is used on. That sounds like a prediction of "will die" rather than a report of "is dying". Remember the fate of all past advocates in the computing field who have predicted "my new favorite will soon replace the old trashy ". Larry Kilgallen