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=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,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: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: "John G. Volan" Subject: Re: Yet another stupid language war (was: ... the only languages you need!!) Date: 1997/11/03 Message-ID: <345E2A30.3F0B@ac3i.dseg.ti.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 287724394 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <34566fe9.447229@news.mindspring.com> <345673af.1413708@news.mindspring.com> <3456b9f3.0@news.eznet.net> <3456e71b.3833189@news.mindspring.com> <3458D116.2D34@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> <345a880a.5334620@news.interlog.com> Organization: Raytheon TI Systems Reply-To: johnv@ac3i.dseg.ti.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-11-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Richard Curzon wrote: > > No, Sun is trying hard to prevent that... They are tying it to their > proprietary platform, and trying to handicap it on Windows. Which is > against the interests of the majority of computer owners. > > MS is trying hard to liberate the language from the Sun proprietary > platform. Good Lord! This is like saying that the glorious and benevolent Red Army "liberated" Eastern Europe whereas the Marshall Plan was an insidious capitalist Allied plot to enslave Western Europe and incarcerate West Berlin behind a Wall! :-) :-) :-) -- usenet.Signature signature = new usenet.Signature ( /*name: */ "John G. Volan", /*employer: */ "Raytheon/TI Advanced C3I Systems, San Jose", /*workEmail: */ "johnv@ac3i.dseg.ti.com", /*homeEmail: */ "johnvolan@sprintmail.com", /*twoCents: */ "Java would be even cooler with Ada95's " + "generics, enumerated types, function types, " + "named parameter passing, etc...", /*disclaimer: */ "These views not packaged in COM.ti.dseg.ac3i, " + "so loading them throws DontQuoteMeError. :-) ");