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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-30 15:28:49 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!pipex!uunet!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Date: 30 Nov 1994 18:08:46 -0500 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <3bj0lu$ruq@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <3aa7jo$7j@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3b5ajt$n86@news-2.csn.net> <3b5h8q$de0@felix.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Date: 1994-11-30T18:08:46-05:00 List-Id: In article , Andre Spiegel wrote: >Michael Feldman writes: > I guess to someone who knows how to spell "Ada" correctly, it should >be pointed out that the official name is `the X window system' >(a window system named `X'), but certainly not `X Windows'. Yep, you're right. Sorry. >(The latter suggesting a relation to `MS Windows,' which couldn't be >further from the truth of course ;-). Indeed. Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5919 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ada on the World-Wide Web: http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Illegitimi non carborundum." (Don't let the bastards grind you down.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------