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: 2001-08-11 16:57:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn1feed!worldnet.att.net!24.0.0.38!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news2.rdc2.tx.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B75C958.DABF2D5A@home.com> From: Larry Elmore X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Proving Correctness (was Java Portability) References: <9jrt62$38t$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B619A6D.5DD6E782@home.com> <3B6636BA.96FD8348@home.com> <9kb3ub$hdo$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <9kchn1$lng$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <9kea9a$lsc$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9keduf$qvc$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <9kelv1$riq$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <9klokd0nif@drn.newsguy.com> <3B706ADC.B4847AC3@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 23:57:17 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.10.25.74 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news2.rdc2.tx.home.com 997574237 65.10.25.74 (Sat, 11 Aug 2001 16:57:17 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 16:57:17 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11801 Date: 2001-08-11T23:57:17+00:00 List-Id: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen wrote: > > Larry Elmore writes: > > > nicolas wrote: > > > > > > > I'd really like to see you in a TV store :-) > > > "Stephen, give me money now, I'm going to develop a great TV set, build a > > > factory, and I promise you will have a great TV set within a few years ..." > > > > Duh... What do you think investors do every day? How in the world do you > > think the vast majority of companies got started in the first place? > > Government mandate, or magic? > > > > Larry > > But he's not an investor, he's potential customer in the mass > market. There is a difference you know, and compilers and libraries > are commodities these days, not custom-made. Not if the library doesn't yet exist and isn't available from _any_ supplier. In that case, you either write it yourself, you contract with someone else to write it for you, or you wait for someone to develop it (which might not be an option depending on when you really need it, and on how specialized it might be). Not all compilers are commodity items, either. The vast majority of custom compilers and interpreters are developed in-house, I'm sure, but I doubt all of them are. There are probably more of these than you might think. Larry