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_40,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: 103376,e77803521f280a36 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Marin David Condic Subject: Re: When will Ada big moment arrive? what is missing? Date: 1999/05/28 Message-ID: <374ED920.4FD22EC0@pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 483192418 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: condicma@bogon.pwfl.com References: <7ig65p$2h7s@drn.newsguy.com> <374C0FAB.8A2409B8@pwfl.com> <7ik5th$cvt$1@front1.grolier.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Pratt & Whitney Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: diespammer@pwfl.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Thierry Lelegard wrote: > Hum, writing the next great _American_ OS in a language > which was designed by a _French_ guy, named after an _English_ > woman... Do you think that you can beat the _Finnish_ OS named > Linux? > Well, in trying to make a play on "The Great American Novel" which everyone wants to write upon retiring from the rat race, I guess I was being a little insensitive to the international quality of Ada. Pardon my ethnocentricism ;-) So is there some other figure of speech we could abuse in this context? MDC -- Marin David Condic Real Time & Embedded Systems, Propulsion Systems Analysis United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, Large Military Engines M/S 731-95, P.O.B. 109600, West Palm Beach, FL, 33410-9600 ***To reply, remove "bogon" from the domain name.*** Visit my web page at: http://www.flipag.net/mcondic