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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dc94fe39f71093ec X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: The revolution will not be standardized Date: 1999/12/14 Message-ID: <385685B2.7E341C32@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 560616508 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <82p7hu$l1q$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <82ppc9$1u6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <385252E8.FF140CD2@acenet.com.au> <8333q3$9rh$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8335ip$b8f$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38561D9A.70B61403@acenet.com.au> <835ukh$uiv$1@nntp2.atl.mindspring.net> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 14 Dec 1999 17:59:13 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-14T17:59:13+00:00 List-Id: Richard D Riehle wrote: > Of course it is. It is standardized just the way > MS Visual Basic is standardized. > Standards are such a wonderful thing that everybody wants to have one of their own, eh? :-) I'd think that for the term to be useful, it needs to imply some sort of agreement between a collection of autonomous and even adversarial people to adhere to some reasonably well defined set of rules. How's that for kicking off another language war? ;-) MDC -- ============================================================= Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - 1.800.555.3393 1015-116 Atlantic Boulevard, Atlantic Beach, FL 32233 http://www.quadruscorp.com/ Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin." -- Allan Meltzer, Economist =============================================================