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: 103376,55958fd991db66fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-11 09:45:57 PST Message-ID: <3D7F71E0.2070309@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020618 Netscape/7.0b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language) References: <3D7CA9E3.51C3015A@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:40:00 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1031762401 198.96.47.195 (Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:40:01 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:40:01 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28828 Date: 2002-09-11T12:40:00-04:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > Trendy is nice, but there could be a technical advantage as well. "Trendy" can work against you too. When everyone gets sick of hearing about XML (which is just a data format), then this'll make the O/S smell. I personally think that the name AdaOS raises a level of curiosity (maybe its just me). Even hard core C/C++ people might be inclined to say to themselves "let's see what those Ada folks are up to". To Ada enthusiasts of course, this acts as a beacon ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg