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From: snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc
Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit  addressing and OOP
Date: 25 Apr 2003 22:16:24 -0700
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softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) wrote in message news:<9fa75d42.0304250448.5107afef@posting.google.com>...
> snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva) wrote in message news:<20619edc.0304240953.221ac70f@posting.google.com>...
> > softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) wrote in message news:<9fa75d42.0304240503.54dbc5d1@posting.google.com>...
> > > 
> > > If Ada projects had actually succeeded in producing good quality
> > > software, it would have been everywhere today.
> > 
> > Yeah, I see your point.  Kind of like why nobody runs Windows anymore.
> > 
> > Mike
> 
> Works for me (plus several million other people.)
> 
> I even used Unix for years, even when it DIDN't
> work 1/10th as reliably as today's Windows.
> 
> It's good to see operating systems progress to
> the point where anybody off the streets can
> realiably use them and the only people complaing
> about the reliability are ones with axes to grind.

You are one funny guy!  In comedy a straight face is everything!  :-)

Gotta get back to those axes now...

Mike