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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4139aa0db7d91e75 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) Subject: Re: Ada callable from Visual Basic? Date: 1997/10/20 Message-ID: <344bbdb6.18439622@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 284617757 References: <62calr$hsk$1@tsunami.traveller.com> <1997Oct19.222329.1@eisner> <344B03EE.1A93@easystreet.com> Organization: InterNex Information Services 1-800-595-3333 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-10-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > You don't give your customer much extra value by >engineering your product to be maintainable for 30 years, when your >competitors will make your products look obsolete every 30 months. Sounds like a call for reusable software components - the car will be obsolete soon, but the same nuts and bolts and tires and tubes will be used in the next cars.