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,dc94fe39f71093ec X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: gregm@netidea.com (Greg Martin) Subject: Re: The revolution will not be standardized Date: 1999/12/14 Message-ID: <3856d861.30417176@news.netidea.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 560754557 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> X-Trace: tw11.nn.bcandid.com 945215928 207.194.162.170 (Tue, 14 Dec 1999 18:58:48 EST) Organization: bCandid - Powering the world's discussions - http://bCandid.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 18:58:48 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:00:18 -0800, "Marin D. Condic" wrote: >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? ;-) > 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. Regards, Greg Martin.