Re: Microsoft & Ada

[Adrian Hoe <AdrianHoe@nowhere.com>]

Robert C. Leif wrote:
>       Faustian would be a better term.  However, if we get lucky, making any
> reasonable deal with Microsoft would be much better than our present
> diminished prospects.  All that I wish for in the .Net world is that Ada is
> brought up to be equal to Eiffel.  
>       If Microsoft should discover Ada or SPARK, more power to them.  I am
> on the side of any group of capitalists who use Ada.  If the new Ada users
> demolish their competition, I will rejoice.  Frankly, I believe that Ada can
> provide Microsoft with something better than money, a chance to make their
> competitors look like a group of fools.  Any one of the present competitors
> could have stopped Microsoft, if they made reliable well engineered
> products.  Instead the competitors use Java and XML DTDs.  When the economy
> functions correctly, stupid business men go broke.  I might feel sorry for
> the average shareholders; however, this is the way capitalism is supposed to
> work.


If M$ uses Ada to develop its Windows and other products, and they get 
hell lot of good quality and stability and they cut their pricing, I 
would consider to go back to Windows.

Right now, I am comfortable with Mac OS X and Linux. And I enjoy 
developing in Ada on OS made of C. :-)

-- 
Adrian Hoe
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