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,be23df8e7e275d73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-24 13:30:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!netnews.com!xfer02.netnews.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B5DCE74.C12AA2D8@earthlink.net> From: "Marc A. Criley" Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Java portability (was: An Ada IDE and discussions) References: <%cR67.1385$mz6.4505748@nnrp3.proxad.net> <9jgopl$5v6$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> <9jh2cs$aon$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> <2sU67.1485$di7.4670499@nnrp3.proxad.net> <9jhb8u$g3s$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> <3B5C4A92.647FC2EC@earthlink.net> <2bb77.5186$DL4.5097616@nnrp5.proxad.net> <3B5D5B79.F2DC527E@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:30:35 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.252.123.119 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 996006635 158.252.123.119 (Tue, 24 Jul 2001 13:30:35 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 13:30:35 PDT X-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 13:27:48 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10536 Date: 2001-07-24T20:30:35+00:00 List-Id: nicolas wrote: > > Ada world is small enough to make you feel extremely uncomfortable if you > depends on one single company. > It is everything but nice to depend on Microsoft, it's not a very good > solution to find yourself in the same case, > but with a company which could disappear or drop Ada language within a few > years. Though I would doubt that _Ada_ Core Technologies would drop Ada any time in the near future :-) Marc