From: Stefan Skoglund <stetson@ebox.tninet.se>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests]
Date: 2000/01/25
Date: 2000-01-25T20:31:38+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <388E014A.B8F87F5@ebox.tninet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mEqh4.1156$IF5.29136@news.rdc1.il.home.com
Robert S. White wrote:
> >That's silly. You can't call Starlet "extensions to Ada" any more than
> >you can call the Motif library "extensions to C". Its just a (big
> >honking) package someone wrote, in Ada.
>
> Exactly!
Can we agree on one thing ?
Every time someone uses a package provided by the vendor
they do so of their own volution ? ie if i need a LALR parser in
my program i probably picks up aflex ?
If someone is doing Ada with a VAX as target they could
very well use some package provided by Dec in their Ada offerings.
Every time someone decides that it is worthwhile using some package
from someone else and running the risk that that package could be
unavailable some day ie probably causing a re-write.
Like in the case there you go from VMS to UNIX to NT (maybe 2 rewrites
and maybe not.)
This is one of the differences between Freeware projects like
GNAT and vendor-specific products ie the customer is usually out on
a limb if the vendor decides to drop some product.
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Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-12 0:00 [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests] Rocky
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-12 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Bill Greene
[not found] ` <Ft6f4.2216$iy5.114812@typ12.deja.bcandid.com>
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Bill Greene
2000-01-12 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Bill Greene
[not found] ` <3d8f4.2267$iy5.117569@typ12.deja.bcandid.com>
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Bill Greene
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-13 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
[not found] ` <yxof4.2433$iy5.130692@typ12.deja.bcandid.com>
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-12 0:00 ` David Tannen
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Harry Andreas
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Bill Greene
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Keith Willshaw
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Keith Willshaw
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Gautier
[not found] ` <38821915.B56815F8@maths.unine.ch>
[not found] ` <85t9oa$867$1@ssauraaa-i-1.production.compuserve.com>
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Keith Willshaw
[not found] ` <oHcg4.2964$iy5.180009@typ12.deja.bcandid.com>
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-16 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-16 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-17 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-17 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Bill Greene
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Robert S. White
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Robert S. White
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund [this message]
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Mark Lundquist
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-17 0:00 ` K. Devlin
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Chris Douglas
2000-01-18 0:00 ` P. S. Norby
[not found] ` <QHvg4.3143$iy5.200225@typ12.deja.bcandid.com>
2000-01-17 0:00 ` David Gillon
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Stuart Palin
2000-01-17 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-17 0:00 ` David Tannen
2000-01-18 0:00 ` K. Devlin
2000-01-17 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Mark Lundquist
2000-01-18 0:00 ` K. Devlin
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Roga Danar
2000-01-15 0:00 ` K. Devlin
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-15 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Keith Willshaw
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Paul J. Adam
2000-01-16 0:00 ` John Keeney
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Paul J. Adam
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Keith WIllshaw
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
[not found] <sBvg4.3142$iy5.199834@typ12.deja.bcandid.com>
2000-01-17 0:00 ` tmoran
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