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,a1ce307c10055549
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-13 07:51:21 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news3.cac.psu.edu!usenet
From: Robert Spooner <rls19@psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:46:29 -0500
Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing
Message-ID: <3DFA00D5.9010307@psu.edu>
References: <3DF1615C.7AAAC86E@adaworks.com>
 <3DF1B042.6603DDDE@easystreet.com> <3DF2A483.EC512CDF@adaworks.com>
 <at24vr$mf3$1@slb5.atl.mindspring.net>
 <8db3d6c8.0212091445.12594821@posting.google.com>
 <at4rfn$ju2$1@slb9.atl.mindspring.net> <3DF628C4.7090607@cogeco.ca>
 <a1sJ9.161$Z74.587@dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com>
 <3DF6653D.3030603@cogeco.ca>
 <8db3d6c8.0212101850.51506572@posting.google.com>
 <at7fi7$7fc$1@slb0.atl.mindspring.net> <3DF7901C.3000006@acm.org>
 <ata3ap$m2k$1@slb0.atl.mindspring.net>
 <1039712678.466533@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>
 <atajsc$kh6$1@slb6.atl.mindspring.net> <3DF9A5B3.3CC0E2A3@praxis-cs.co.uk>
 <atcknd$8nr$1@slb9.atl.mindspring.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: nat3.arl.psu.edu
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;
 rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0
X-Accept-Language: en,de,fr-FR
To: Marin David Condic <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31790
Date: 2002-12-13T10:46:29-05:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>


Marin David Condic wrote:
> So if the Ada mentality is going to remain "We won't build a library until
> it can be released in the ARM and implemented on every processor ever
> designed and thoroughly run through the wringer so that it is 100% provable
> to be safe and reliable...." then I guess Ada can just keep on giving up
> development jobs to C, C++ and Java.
> 
This is a good point.  From my vantage point, one of the big mistakes
Digital Equipment Corp. (remember them?) made with their version of UNIX 
was
that they didn't release it until if was up to (or at least close to) 
their reliability standards.  That put them in a bad competitive 
position, and we all know what happened subsequently.  I'm not saying 
the demise of DEC was solely due to that, but I think it was a 
contributing factor.

Bob
-- 
                             Robert L. Spooner
                      Registered Professional Engineer
                        Associate Research Engineer
                   Intelligent Control Systems Department

          Applied Research Laboratory        Phone: (814) 863-4120
          The Pennsylvania State University  FAX:   (814) 863-7841
          P. O. Box 30
          State College, PA 16804-0030       rls19@psu.edu