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_20,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: <3856EA29.7B4C0A95@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 560778720 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$1@nntp2.atl.mindspring.net> <385685B2.7E341C32@quadruscorp.com> <3856d861.30417176@news.netidea.com> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 15 Dec 1999 01:07:53 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-15T01:07:53+00:00 List-Id: Greg Martin wrote: > I certainly hope it doesn't Marin because I believe you are quite > right. A standard is to be measured against and has to be open and > used to be of meaning.. The U.S. still clings (to some degree) to the > British Standard of weights and measure while most of the rest of the > world has gone metric. End result: more flotsam (or is that jetsam) on > Mars. The "language war" I refer to is the one that seems to get started up here occasionally concerning defining terminology. Personally, I may prefer not to spend too much time trying to get a consensus going on what constitutes a "Standard" because I think I'll know one when I see one. When I look at the ARM, I see something with a relatively high level of standardization. Micro$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 -- ============================================================= 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 =============================================================