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,bcdac28207102750 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Ada95 speed (wandering off topic slightly) Date: 1999/06/03 Message-ID: <1999Jun3.070603.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 485226732 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <374182F2.B10AD449@Maths.UniNe.CH> <3741aa37.3892645@news.pacbell.net> <3741B203.4890880B@Maths.UniNe.CH> <7ht4ss$4mu$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3743D5BB.37152F94@gte.net> <310519991456230875%hopperj@macconnect.com> <3753DA33.F2E088A0@gte.net> <020619990016393118%hopperj@macconnect.com> <37553205.2EB31CA3@gte.net> <020619991155386995%hopperj@macconnect.com> <37556F9E.D7AA9901@gte.net> <37558947.A1C12CA9@Maths.UniNe.CH> X-Trace: news.decus.org 928407972 4227 KILGALLEN [216.44.122.34] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-06-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough) writes: > Gautier wrote: > > " What an argument. Don't kill yourselves! > The main problem is with Mac OS." > > " With all these resource forks, hidden data types, > opaque system, it's still more suited for word processing > than Ada programming..." > > What a _bizzare_ claim. Let's see if we can get Mr Gautier to > actually come up with some proof for his hypothesis (but don't > hold your breath people. Bigots are rarely interested in > _proving_ anything). Oh, no. Let's _not_ get him to pursue this inappropriate rathole any further. I am probably a bigger Macintosh fan than anyone who follows this newsgroup, but I purposefully avoid following platform advocacy groups because for me it is a waste of time. Larry Kilgallen