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: 103376,5f7d72bde5bb96de X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-03-27 05:34:45 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <406582EC.3000201@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: Is 3.15p -still- the latest GNAT 'p' release? References: <87wu5834r2.fsf@insalien.org> <40641888.80000@noplace.com> <87ekrfyxiu.fsf@insalien.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 13:34:45 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.24.65 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1080394485 209.165.24.65 (Sat, 27 Mar 2004 05:34:45 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 05:34:45 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6600 Date: 2004-03-27T13:34:45+00:00 List-Id: Well, we might discover that Microsoft actually *agrees* with that assessment in the sense that they can see their own customers resisting purchasing new versions of software because the old ones still work & get the job done fine. Hence, they have to keep coming up with schemes to either tempt you or force you to buy the next generation product. That's one reason they feel so threatened by things like Linux and Open Office - sooner or later those products stabilize and provide 99.9% of all the features anyone really needs and so why does someone need to buy a new generation of word processor or spreadsheet? Ada compiler vendors OTOH can likely count on ongoing language changes, new computer architectures to target and continual improvement in the efficiency and quality of the code they generate to keep demand up for new releases of a compiler. But still, I've had projects freeze the compiler version in order to achieve stability and were still able to get the job done. Old software that works is often "Good Enough". MDC Ludovic Brenta wrote: > > Heh, I was refraining from saying just that for fear of looking like > an emotional Ada bigot and Microsoft basher. Now there's two of us :) > -- ====================================================================== 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 "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================