From: "Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>
Subject: Re: The revolution will not be standardized
Date: 1999/12/14
Date: 1999-12-15T01:07:53+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3856EA29.7B4C0A95@quadruscorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3856d861.30417176@news.netidea.com
Greg Martin wrote:
> I certainly hope it doesn't Marin because I believe you are quite
> right. A standard is to be measured against and has to be open and
> used to be of meaning.. The U.S. still clings (to some degree) to the
> British Standard of weights and measure while most of the rest of the
> world has gone metric. End result: more flotsam (or is that jetsam) on
> Mars.
The "language war" I refer to is the one that seems to get started up
here occasionally concerning defining terminology. Personally, I may
prefer not to spend too much time trying to get a consensus going on
what constitutes a "Standard" because I think I'll know one when I see
one. When I look at the ARM, I see something with a relatively high
level of standardization. Micro$oft Visual Basic on the other hand, has
a relatively low level of standardization. (I can't count on what it
contains from one moment to the next.)
As for flotsam on Mars, I thought I heard the latest problem was being
blamed on VxWorks. But I don't always have my ear firmly enough to the
ground to get the accurate dope on these rumors. (Maybe we could blame
the whole mess on the fact that VxWorks wasn't written in Ada? Or would
that be kicking someone when they're down? {It is, after all, the safest
way} :-)
MDC
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1999-12-09 0:00 The revolution will not be standardized Ted Dennison
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-13 0:00 ` reason67
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Greg Martin
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic [this message]
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-12-23 0:00 ` gnat 3.12 Michael Ben-Gershon
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-15 0:00 ` The revolution will not be standardized Greg Martin
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-14 0:00 ` reason67
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
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