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: 103376,3a20687b5291e42e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-26 01:52:12 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!stout.entertain.com!nobody From: cjames@stout.entertain.com (Colin James III) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Fed OOPS ... OOPS! We forgot to include Ada! Date: 26 Mar 1995 09:52:12 -0000 Organization: /etc/organization Message-ID: <3l3dgc$4gi@stout.entertain.com> References: <3kkng4$j1s@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3kveke$lg3@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: stout.entertain.com Date: 1995-03-26T09:52:12+00:00 List-Id: In article , Gregory Aharonian wrote: > >>Capitalists: people who give money to Greg >>Socialists: people who give money to anyone else >>There are probably quite a few would-be business men who feel this way :-) >>Robert Dewar > > Coming from someone who has received millions of dollars from the DoD >for GNAT, the results of which you are now using to launch a business, >your hypocrisy shows once again. > > Get the DoD to stake me the same amount of money, and then let see who >can do the most to benefit Ada. But as one of the troughers, stick to >troughing. > >Greg Aharonian I concur. What ACT is doing is unconscionable, dopey, and wrong. Besides, GNAT isn't Ada95 by a long shot. To have seen Ed Schoenberg (ACT crony of Robert Dewar) as an Ada rep at TOOLS EUROPE '95 was enough to queer even the most casual observer on the efficacy of GNAT. What a pill. That was enough to drive anyone to C++. The Ada community in Europe is in such bad shape that Rational and Thomson split the cost of having Professor Schoenberg there: Team Puke.