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,b0d68c502c0ae6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: David Botton Subject: Re: Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World Date: 1999/03/05 Message-ID: <36E0085A.C1667CA5@Botton.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 451607258 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7bfc2n$jl9@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <7bhh26$r7c$1@remarQ.com> <36DCAC1F.430E2C5E@aasaa.ofe.org> <7bk5c2$8ge$1@remarQ.com> <36DDA9BA.E005E578@aasaa.ofe.org> <36DE3744.13F6A16A@omicron.se> <36DD54D2.141B@ddre.dk> <7bn19b$7h4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36DE53BC.1AE0@ddre.dk> <7boqj7$n9b$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> To: dewar@gnat.com X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: CyberGate, Inc. Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: The author, Hans Marqvardsen, you were responding to just happened to mention my name, since he has an article on CONIO on my site. I wouldn't get involved with a thread like this unless I was dragged in! > (David, this was probably before your time, > but Ada/Ed was an executable specification that ran perhaps > 6-7 decimal orders of magnitude slower than a production > compiler). I am well aware of Ada/Ed :) I have been developing software professionally for the last 14 years, although not always in Ada. > 2) COM files must be buildable on NT :-) Like I said, I got dragged in to this. I only "feel" (I don't have proof, nor perspective on the market to validate my "feelings") that this would be an important feature for future customers of Ada compilers. It certainly has nothing to do with compiler validation. > The point is that NONE of the above issues are even vaguely > validation issues. Yup. > Robert Dewar Peace brother.