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-Thread: 103376,d17f9c8d910b90f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:19:28 +0800 From: Adrian Hoe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Microsoft & Ada References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.95.193.141 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.95.193.141 Message-ID: <41465401$1_2@news.tm.net.my> X-Trace: news.tm.net.my 1095128065 219.95.193.141 (14 Sep 2004 10:14:25 +0800) Organization: TMnet Malaysia Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!newshosting.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!news-out.visi.com!news-out.octanews.net!petbe.visi.com!ash.uu.net!news1.tm.net.my!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3705 Date: 2004-09-14T10:19:28+08:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > Faustian would be a better term. However, if we get lucky, making any > reasonable deal with Microsoft would be much better than our present > diminished prospects. All that I wish for in the .Net world is that Ada is > brought up to be equal to Eiffel. > If Microsoft should discover Ada or SPARK, more power to them. I am > on the side of any group of capitalists who use Ada. If the new Ada users > demolish their competition, I will rejoice. Frankly, I believe that Ada can > provide Microsoft with something better than money, a chance to make their > competitors look like a group of fools. Any one of the present competitors > could have stopped Microsoft, if they made reliable well engineered > products. Instead the competitors use Java and XML DTDs. When the economy > functions correctly, stupid business men go broke. I might feel sorry for > the average shareholders; however, this is the way capitalism is supposed to > work. If M$ 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 m a i l b o x AT a d r i a n h o e . c o m