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,de0abe9655235740 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-31 19:07:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3FA32361.8000806@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ACM Ada Letters References: <3F881B71.7030602@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 03:07:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.2.13 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1067656038 209.165.2.13 (Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:07:18 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:07:18 EST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1885 Date: 2003-11-01T03:07:18+00:00 List-Id: Well, there's a useful product that might spur some interest in Ada. Something similar to Open Office (which works fine for me - maybe it needs the next generation of hardware. That's part of the conspiracy between the hardware vendors and the software vendors.) would make a good product. But you're clearly talking about something way-big to build. MDC Nick Roberts wrote: > > Well, I use OpenOffice as well. I click on the icon to start it up, then > go and make a cup of tea and feed the cat, and sometimes when I come > back it's nearly finished loading. > > ;-) > > I'm sorry, but I cannot help feeling that OO doesn't just need a few > bugs squashing; it needs redesigning and rewriting (in Ada?). I thought > StarOffice was great, but as soon as Sun have something to do with a > piece of software, you just know it's going to go the way of the Dodo. > > I use OpenOffice only when nothing else will do. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "So if I understand 'The Matrix Reloaded' correctly, the Matrix is basically a Microsoft operating system - it runs for a while and then crashes and reboots. By design, no less. Neo is just a memory leak that's too hard to fix, so they left him in... The users don't complain because they're packed in slush and kept sedated" -- Marin D. Condic ======================================================================