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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e29c511c2b08561c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Bob Crispen Subject: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered? Date: 1996/06/27 Message-ID: <31D2944C.2781E494@boeing.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 162380905 sender: Ada programming language references: <9606212019.AA11075@eight-ball> comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: The Boeing Company mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.1 sun4c) Date: 1996-06-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Joe Gwinn wrote: >I guess I am not convinced that freeware, although certainly useful, is >anything I would normally choose to bet my project on. Gnu C seems to be >the sole exception. And, development of industrial-strength tool suites >requires industrial-strength cashflow. There are times in one's professional life when the problem is vastly simplified by knowing the answer beforehand. This seems to be the case here. Anyone who could write the first two sentences one right after the other has already decided not to use Ada and is merely attempting to get us to build a case for him. And anyone who could write the third sentence just plain wasn't paying attention to what other people said the first time he tried to make that point. It might be observed that coming into an Ada programming language discussion group and trying to educe data that will support one's own ill-founded antipathy toward Ada, without the slightest possibility of changing one's own mind on the subject, is discourteous and leaves one's values and conduct open to question. -- Bob Crispen bob.crispen@boeing.com Speaking for myself, not my company