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,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c6c96fe0302f04f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-17 03:11:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: POLL: Would you use Ada more if... Date: 17 Aug 2002 03:11:21 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0208170211.667aabca@posting.google.com> References: <3d5ce7f0.12192351@news.demon.co.uk> <3d5cfa8e.16958234@news.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1029579081 14150 127.0.0.1 (17 Aug 2002 10:11:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Aug 2002 10:11:21 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28154 Date: 2002-08-17T10:11:21+00:00 List-Id: john.nospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk (John McCabe) wrote in message news:<3d5cfa8e.16958234@news.demon.co.uk>... > If you go to your [large] company's accountat and say > "there you go, > I've spent $1000 on software" and they say, "well, where > is it?" and > you say "it's a file on my PC" what do you think they're > going to say > to that? Please don't invent problems where none exist. This is almost never a problem in practice. One or two times out of hundreds of customers, we have had to ship a box with a CD ROM, and indeed now we always ship a box with a CD ROM, but not because of any accountants, but rather we think people like to have a nice set of printer manuals and a box! Going back to accountants. Suppose you work for an airline and you tell the accountant that you have just signed a 1.7 million dollar order for maintenance of front wing doohickeys, do you think the accountant is concerned there is no physical box. Of course not :-) Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies