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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-19 16:04:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!news-east.rr.com!news-west.rr.com!lsnws01.we.mediaone.net!cyclone-LA3.rr.com!typhoon.san.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B57676A.AB47237B@san.rr.com> From: Darren New Organization: Boxes! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language? References: <3B59EE1C@MailAndNews.com> <9j74bj$lmp$8@news.tpi.pl> <9j796h$b2t$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9j7h4l$lpr$1@news.tpi.pl> <9j7iug$eb2$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9j7n3j$e8t$1@news.tpi.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 23:04:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.94.25.117 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.san.rr.com 995583850 24.94.25.117 (Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:04:10 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:04:10 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10291 Date: 2001-07-19T23:04:10+00:00 List-Id: > If there were MSAda, you couldn't just recompile MSAda programs on > other Ada compiler. Does Ada still have the advantage of being trademarked here, so you can't call something Ada if it's not compatible? > Java wars just confirmed it. Funky, considering many found MS's Java to actually match more standards than Sun's. > Unices are the only family of OSes that have real standards, > followed by many OSes. And of course, the fact that I can run the same executable on DOS, Win3.1, Win98, WinNT, and Win2000 means nothing either. Sure. -- Darren New / Senior MTS & Free Radical / Invisible Worlds Inc. San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. Only a WIMP puts wallpaper on his desktop.