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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,53c5fea49e77990c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-29 07:20:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn14eed!wn3feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!12.120.28.17!attla2!attla1!ip.att.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CA48637.C5C4DEF5@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Dot Net ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 10:20:23 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1017415235 151.168.144.162 (Fri, 29 Mar 2002 10:20:35 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 10:20:35 EST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21841 Date: 2002-03-29T10:20:23-05:00 List-Id: > And look, before all of you start flaming me with a bunch of crap about > portable GUI interfaces, the evils of the Gates Empire, just stop before you > even get started. ..... > > I have earned the right to say that as far as I'm concerned Ada has always > missed the mark, has always fallen short of the other languages when it > comes to MS Windows development environments and tools. I would just like to This is true. However, part of the reason is that Ada folks generally HAVE been concerned with portability, while Microsoft is concerned with preventing it! Ada on .Net would be a Good Thing, but if it would remain truly Ada, it would be a Better Thing. .Net and C# are basically an attempt to make a Microsoft-controlled alternative to Java. I'd like to see Ada on .Net, but I know that Gates & Co. will do everything they can get away with to make it incompatible with any other Ada, just like they did with Java. If you consider this a flame, so be it. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau