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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,877ba3d67e73c6c3 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-18 11:35:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mailgate.org!mygate.mailgate.org!198.207.153.205!not-for-mail From: "Kent Paul Dolan" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Paranoia about .NET (still): Rant! (was) Development process in the Ada community Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:35:28 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG Message-ID: <357f0f4aab2ac8ef39234c96f0ab6311.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <5ee5b646.0204121930.64733eeb@posting.google.com> <5wTt8.15598$C21.3515342@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> <5ee5b646.0204130620.114953ae@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0204180615.150e4bef@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.207.153.205 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.mailgate.org 1019142807 4765 198.207.153.205 (Thu Apr 18 20:35:28 2002) X-Complaints-To: abuse@mailgate.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:35:28 +0000 (UTC) Injector-Info: news.mailgate.org; posting-host=198.207.153.205; posting-account=48257; posting-date=1019142807 User-Agent: Mailgate Web Server X-URL: http://mygate.mailgate.org/mynews/comp/comp.lang.ada/357f0f4aab2ac8ef39234c96f0ab6311.48257%40mygate.mailgate.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22740 misc.misc:6601 Date: 2002-04-18T18:35:28+00:00 List-Id: "Ted Dennison" wrote: > My understanding is that Microsoft is at least partially bankrolling a > lot of those compiler ports. So the real issue is why Microsoft didn't > think Ada worth worrying about, not why ACT doesn't find .NET worth > worrying about. That, at least, is a no-brainer. What made Microsoft attack Java so strongly that it took a lawsuit to slap them down? Java is by design OS independent, contributing to breaking the stranglehold of MS-Windows on the market of "things needed to run applications". Microsoft as a corporate entity and an untrammeled monopoly feels very _threatened_ by the very _concept_ of OS independent programming languages; that's why there's a big compiler creating effort inside Microsoft. OS independent programming language _by design_. Can you think of some other language that meets that description, and so would meet with that reaction at Microsoft? xanthian. -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG